star parties

When I was at Pine Mountain, amateur astronomers would set up their telescopes, and shows tourists celestial bodies with their often homemade telescopes. We showed tourists celestial bodies through the observatory telescopes as well. There are amateur astronomy clubs throughout the world, that aside from holding star parties, hold workshops on making your own telescopes. Amateur Astronomy is one of the few fields where amateurs make contributions to a profesional field, discovering comets, and providing a greater observering power for an otherwise immense universe, for which not nearly enough observervatories exist to monitor everything.