I arrived on Blackheath at around 6.30pm to find Alec and Tony already setting up. The sky looked encouraging and, thankfully, the forecast held up. Seeing turned out to be excellent, with decent transparency for most of the evening. Visitors began to arrive not long after sunset and by the end of the session we’d probably seen 50–60 people, with roughly a dozen telescopes spread across our usual patch of heath. It was particularly nice to see lots of families and children ag