[Chaos-l] Blue areas of the map...

[Mark Lerch]

I've observed there.  I like it.  It's pretty observing at the end of the boat ramp with the reflections on the lake.  Late one night before I left, a sliver of moon with Venus near it came rising over the lake, both of them casting reflections on the clear water.  Memorable.

To my recollection, the good nights offered up (to my rough thumbnail guess using the ursa minor benchmarks) 6.5'ish skies.  The north was better than masp, I thought.

Others will surely offer up massive buckets of information on observing there so I won't spill much more ink over it, other than to say I think it's worth the drive. You can go after they close and not pay anything. In the winter the hours may prohibit this.  That may have changed. There are campgrounds there.

-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Jon Stewart-Taylor
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:42 PM
To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Subject: [Chaos-l] Blue areas of the map...

Hi all.  I was fooling around with the Clear Sky Clock, clicked the  
"light pollution" map, and got:

    http://cleardarksky.com/lp/ChplHllNClp.html?Mn=telescope%20accessory

Out of curiosity and ilgeographyacy, i started clicking on the blue  
areas.  Kerr Lake Recreation Area is inside the north-eastern blue,  
and google maps claims that a couple of places with camping are just  
over an hour away.

I remember hearing people mention Kerr Lake as a place to observe, but  
have never been there.  I tried the obvious searches through google,  
but couldn't find any observing reports or site descriptions.

Anybody know where some are?  Have you observed from there?  What's it  
like?  Apparently there's something wrong with the place.  Is it  
bugs?  Camping fees?

Thanks.

J.
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