[Chaos-l] Perseids: Wall of clouds, clearer to west: Sites?

[walter fowler]

Hanging Rock State Park is a little bit further but ought to be excellent.
Walter

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jon Stewart-Taylor <joncst at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hi all.  in anticipation of the Perseids peak the night of Thursday/morning
> of Friday, I'm looking at the map the Canadian people build from the same
> data the Clear Sky Charts are built on:
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>   http://cleardarksky.com/f.php?p=1C4112ChplHllNC&xhair=2&Mn=astronomical
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> There's a nifty vertical wall of cloud which should be sweeping from west
> to east.  As they're currently predicting it, it won't clear the Triangle
> area until just before dawn.  The further west you go, the sooner the
> trailing edge passes.
>
> Does anybody know of a good site to observe an hour or so drive to the
> west?
>
> J.
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