On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 5:35:17 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
Funny, they hold an observing session at a city park, just days before a total lunar eclipse! Why not hold it DURING the eclipse?

One week before an eclipse is odd. Two weeks before an eclipse would at least
get New Moon.

However, this is an observing night *inside the city*, with street lights and
all that. So no deep sky objects whatever the Moon is doing. Probably their star
party was indeed held at the time of the new moon, *out of town*.

As for the eclipse - well, as you note, temperatures were extremely cold in the
Toronto area, so few members of the general public would come to be introduced
to astronomy under such conditions.

So I suspect they know what they're doing.

John Savard