[Chaos-l] September 24th

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Jayme Hanzak wrote:

> [...] . They have asked us to come out to Camp Butner to put on an  
> observing session [...]

I should be able to help out with this one.

> this is an opportunity for us to go out and look at the camp as a  
> dark sky site. [...]
> closer to Stem than Butner [...]

The dark sky finder algorithm indicates it's probably not all that  
dark there:

    http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/index.php?lat=36.19330862531989&lng=-78.73832702636719&zoom=12&pollution=true

Depending on where exactly the camp is, it's probably about the same  
as Farrington or Little River.  Not  bad, but not dark.

J.
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Jon Stewart-Taylor:  joncst at earthlink.net
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