An excellent talk, though not quite what I was expecting. Dave covered the basics of observing which included a discussion of how the eye works and the importance of averted vision and lengthy dark adaptation if you want to study faint objects. He discussed the various star maps available but limited himself to material as opposed to electronic ones. After that we were shown a large number of slides, many taken by Dave himself and all of them interesting. The audience generally found the talk useful and some of them said things like " yes, I feel I could do that". That's good!

- Stan Waterman