Charleston Lake Provincial Park does an annual star gazing night highlighted by a slide presentation in an outdoor amphitheatre by Terry Dickinson followed by telescope viewing by assorted volunteers from around the area. This year we had folks from Kingston and Ottawa Centres. There were more scopes out there than I have ever seen before. The clouds cleared away fairly early and left us with dark crisp skies but with a lot of turbulence up to 20 deg or so. With so many scopes set up we had very short lines and it seemed that the crowds disappeared very soon.
Estimates are in the multiple hundreds with lots of little ones.
Star charts and satellite prediction page handouts went like crazy. After that we got down to some serious observing. I was using the Douglas 25cm with the 32mm eyepiece to locate a messier and the 19mm panoptic to get a good look at it. In the 3 hours or so of hunting I almost doubled my total of 21, getting another 19. Too bad I had to skip sagittarius as there were substantial hills to the south.