April 2016,

April 2016,
My choices for stargazing at Primland. There were two astronomy tours, the early one hour Stargazing Tour and the later more expensive Universe Tour.
I arrived at The Lodge and was not prepared to discover a temple of status worshipping people; mandatory valet parking, door men there to open the door ect. . I just came for the stars.
The first 30 minutes we sat under a moving doomed roof and looked at camera generated pictures on one of two flat screen monitors. There was just a small slot in the roof For the telescope. You could not see the stars, it was a de facto' computer screen tour. The "Star Master" as he is called, never told us we are looking at an image captured by camera manipulated by computer program and displayed on large flat screen TV.
Then half of us went outside stood in line to look thru a small telescope at moon and Jupiter. The Star Master new a couple obvious constellations and said
"if you want me to identify anything let me know."
Then he did not know basic landmarks of the sky, like Cycle of Leo, Corvus or Head of Hydra.
There was a full moon so observation conditions were ordinary; there was no Milky Way, no satellites nor stars near the horizon.