[Chaos-l] Mini Star Party This Weekend

[Chuck Cook]

That's a pretty good spot, many old-time members may remember having a
couple of CHAOS star parties out there around 7-8 years ago.

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From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:09 PM
To: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: [Chaos-l] Mini Star Party This Weekend

Everyone,

Well, if you have been checking like I have, you probably realize that 
the weather is not going to cooperate this weekend for our mini star 
party at Medoc Mountain State Park.  I'm still hoping for a miracle, but 
the weather predictions have steadily been for almost 100% cloud cover 
and rain showers Thursday through Sunday.   We'll see ...

But in preparation, I drove to the park today ... and it is a very, very 
nice place.   It took about 1 hour 40 minutes to get there, but I got 
stuck behind a couple of slow cars and trucks.  They have 34 campsites, 
10 of them with electricity.  There is a *heated* bathhouse with 
showers.   There is a large field where Allen says he usually sets up 
for observing.   There is a fireplace at the end of the field where you 
can build a fire and keep warm.  There are also group campsites with a 
separate field, that might be a great place to have a club star party in 
the spring!   In all, I was very impressed ... and I didn't even get to 
see how dark it was at night!

So I am really looking forward to going there sometime soon and doing 
some observing ... it just probably won't be this weekend.   Perhaps we 
can go in January.   I'll let you know.

Robert

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