[Chaos-l] Booted- out of Farrington Pt-->STAY HOME TONIGHT

[Mark South]

Hi,
I just got in.  To say the least I'm quite disappointed that I  
couldn't observe, but mostly concerned about our use of Farrington  
Point in the future.
Let me explain what happened:

As i was setting up my equipment, a ranger drove right up on to my  
vehicle with his front lights blinding me.  He walked up and asked me  
what I was doing.
I said,  "I'm going to look through my telescope."
He said, "You've got to pack up your stuff and leave this area."
I was shocked and explained I've been coming here for some time now  
including folks from CHAOS.
He said that he was informed the policy is:  "this is a boat ramp  
access only for boaters and no one else."
I respectfully said, "I don't think it's fair boaters should have all  
the fun with their hobby and astronomers can't."
He said, "I'm sorry sir."
I said under my breath, "Fiddly-stix"  not. :)

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I'm hoping that we haven't lost the right to use this area for  
amateur astronomy!  ... has the policy changed?  or is this a new  
ranger who doesn't know about CHAOS and MPSC?
Anyway, does anyone know the head ranger of Jordan Lake?
Any feedback for us avid Farrington Pt users would be appreciated!
Mark

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Mark South
md_south at mac.com
http://web.mac.com/md_south




On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Michael Hrivnak wrote:

> Mark South just called to say that a park ranger made him leave  
> Farrington
> tonight practically as soon as he got there.  It sounds like the  
> guy was
> waiting around patrolling that area, so it's probably best to stay  
> home
> tonight until we can sort this out.
>
> More details to follow from Mark.
>
> Michael
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