Flagstaff February 8, 2020

Back in Flagstaff for the weekend.  The plan is to do a Home Depot workshop on drywall patching and the Lowell Observatory and one last meeting with one of the girls from work.  The Home Depot workshop went really well and I spent a couple hours there.  

Went to the Obaervatory and I'd looked at the event schedule online and I knew they had a lot of activities.   A new one every hour.  I was there from 2pm until after 10pm.  Every hour on the hour is another event or lecture.  In the evening they are running two activities at a time, so I missed some.  I ended up returning to the front desk and buying a membership.  The day pass is $22 and the membership is $45 and includes free visits along with admission to around 300 other science museums around the country.  I'll be close to a number in California, and there are 3 in Tuscon alone.  I figured I'd catch a few more on I-10 on the way back to Florida.  Totally worth the price. Plus next weekend, I'm returning back to Flagstaff for the I <3 Pluto Festival, which I'll be able to attend for free.  Its put a minor kink in my plans, but very minor.  I might even go back to the Observatory on Friday to attend the events I missed before the festival.  I watched the sun and the moon through telescopes.   I saw the telescope that Pluto was discovered with.  I looked through the Clark Telescope which at one point was the largest telescope in the world.  All the Apollo astronauts trained with this telescope to learn about the moon.  Lowell scientists trained the Apollo astronauts on how to be scientists when on the moon, as at the time astronauts were mostly just military pilots without scientific training.