by Robin Casady
Sorry you didn't come.
Here's a little animated GIF with 30 frames extracted from one second of video. It gives a good impression of the seeing (which was fast seeing).
http://www.robincasady.com/Astro/images/Seeing_Mars2003-8-30.gif
A most people left by midnight, but I believe some stayed all night. Most of the visitors were parked down below, when the folk with telescopes left, they didn't seem to kick up much dust. There were a number of white-light incidents due to ignorance, and one medical emergency. However, I never felt the need to cap the scope. I left at about 1:30 AM.
