Been nothing but a solo deal for me, wife could care less. My first star thingy was a local park star gaze. I got the guts to go by myself, missed the short meeting and then I asked where everybody going, up the hill to where the scopes were. 'bout 10 scopes set up for people to look thru, nice. What I found kinda funny, and tough luck was that none of the scope bringers hardly talked to each other or mingled. Definitely a few snotty types who been around along time, obvious. Not one person said hi to me till I broke the ice and said hi. A lot of them tried to be way to tech for the people who were there, maybe trying to pump up the wow factor. One guy brought a 16" dob Meade that he packed in his van and wound up being the most approachable. He and I were last to leave, observing and trying to see stuff thru the cloudy night. That was the good part, the rest of the night was a lot of being talked down to, until I let them know I have looked up in the sky also. I guess if you are the one with the telescope everybody else is a one step above slime. Most seemed this way. Out of the 10 scopers and their posse, 3 were outgoing,2generous and nice. The most unapproachable were the local college professors, so sad. When I left, I left with about the same as I came, nobody wanted to talk about their clubs, emails, hooking up again for more sky observing, believe me I asked em all about thier clubs or where they view.
I feel better now that I got that off my chest whether anybody reads this or not.
I did tell them all about this site
Brian
I feel better now that I got that off my chest whether anybody reads this or not.
I did tell them all about this site
Brian