March's Star Party - in the rain!

Who would be silly enough to show up for a star party in the pouring rain?  Those thoughts went through my head today as a fairly steady rain poured down all day long. A small clearing in the clouds appeared late this afternoon but quickly closed up toward sundown. The answer to my question came in the form of Judy and me and about ten others! I anticipated a stellar no-show and added about twice as much material including slides on the signs of the zodiac and why the sun's not in Leo in August anymore, Dawn at Ceres, CME's on the sun, and finding your way around in the sky. A crash of OpenOffice that occured before the show even started resulted in several slides 'disappearing' but otherwise it all went without a hitch, except no stars. There were several good questions and everyone seemed to enjoy going outside to see if we could catch at least a glimpse of something. There were no 9 year olds at this event so I basically skipped 'birthday stars' but will include them later. It was a kind of blah way to end the season's star parties as we will be heading back north soon, to darker skies hopefully, but it was fun anyway.