DRYDEN TWP. — Despite overcast skies scores of people were at Seven Ponds Nature Centers Saturday night for its annual Celestial Skies Over Seven Ponds event.
After holding the event at Metamora-Hadley State Recreation Area for the past five years, local amateur astronomers moved the event back to their home base.
That provided an indoor space for Buddy Start, the planetarium manager at Flint’s Longway Planetarium to do a presentation of the 50 years of space explorations since man first stepped foot on the moon and for local meteorite collector Mark Jeffery to display and discuss some of his prized finds.
Even with the cloud cover of the evening, people got a chance to view the craters of the moon and later in the evening a few breaks in the clouds let people see even more distant objects.
— Phil Foley