The Daviess County Library in Gallatin held its first NASA@mylibrary event on Friday, Aug. 4.
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“The event was a big success and the library basement was full!” said Library Director Allison Spidle.
An almost exact cross section of the county attended — young and old, members of nearly every church, and at least one person/family from every town as well as Lake Viking, grandparents with grandchildren, families, singles, farmers in work clothes, men, women, girls and boys.
Jackie Beucher, an eclipse-chaser, gave an hour long presentation followed by stargazing outside the library. She is a NASA Night Sky Network expert and is currently vice-president of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City. After the program, library staff distributed free solar eclipse glasses and NASA decal stickers.
“The speaker and her guest personally noted to me following the talk how impressed they were with our community spirit and general sense of community; which was a very nice comment,” said Mrs. Spidle.
The library had to shut down the event at 10:15 p.m. and tell people to come back next Friday for part two of the series.
“I think they would have stayed until well past midnight looking through the telescopes!” Ms. Spidle said.
Next Friday, Aug. 11, the library will start at 630 p.m. with sungazing through a special sunscope with a filter on it, then at 730 p.m. is a 20 minute talk on telescoping, followed by more stargazing with the monster telescopes you see in the picture. The presentation will be by NASA Night Sky Network astronomy expert Dawn Grant. Library staff will again be distributing free solar eclipse glasses and NASA decal stickers following the talk.