[Chaos-l] No Observing At Medoc Mountain This Weekend

[Mark Lerch]

I knew I was going to regret not going to Medoc mid-week when it was so clear.  Ah well, there's always the Winter Star Party.  : )

I can't make it tomorrow night.

Incidentally, Big Bang's newsletter just arrived.  I emailed Katie (and cc'd Jeff Farr, from darkpark.org) and asked her about this statement in the newsletter:

"March is a good time to plan a trip to a dark sky location (such as Robbins, NC http://www.masp.org/park.htm; http://www.darkpark.org/) to view Messier objects."

My question was if there is a location, on or near the MASP location, which is now open outside of the week of MASP.

For my driving dollars and observing experience/limiting magnitude tests, Medoc and Kerr Lake are easily better.

http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

Robbins is yellow-green, Medoc & north Kerr Lake are both blue.  The DarkPark project seems ambitious, given the encroachment of the Yellow and no natural barriers (big lakes, state parks, etc.) with which to provide future pollution buffers.


Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:14 PM
To: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: [Chaos-l] No Observing At Medoc Mountain This Weekend

Well, fate is against us ...

Like I said, I'm still not completely over my cold, so I wanted to wait
until Saturday to head out and observe at Medoc Mountain.   Well, the
cloud cover is predicted to roll in and be essentially completely
overcast after midnight on Saturday ... so Allen and I decided it wasn't
worth it.   So I'm not going this weekend.    I hope the weekend of the
24th-25th will be better!

Since the clouds are supposed to hold off until after midnight, the
Morehead Planetarium observing session should be fine tomorrow.  I think
I'll make an appearance.

Anyone else?

Robert

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