Observing evening for the mental health awareness week in Leuven

On October 5, the students of the University organised an observing evening for the the mental health awareness week in Leuven.  The weather was not ideal, but at least it stayed dry during most of the evening.  We had set up two telescopes: the Meade 12 inch telescope and the William Optics Zenithstar 110 TMB APO.  

As there were a lot of clouds, we started explaining the different types of telescopes, how to see the difference between stars and planets, ...  Luckily, parts of the sky cleared out, so we could show some constellations and even point the telescopes to Jupiter and Saturn for a little while.  

There were around 50 students and they really were interested.  It started raining, so we hurried to break down the telescopes and ended this nice event!

Students ready to observe