[Chaos-l] March 4th - 6th club star gazing

[Jayme Hanzak]

Greetings CHAOS, 

  

Last night we had a very lively club meeting. Our guest speaker was Dr. Barbara Becker who gave a 

wonderful talk about Margaret Huggins. Margaret Huggins was the wife and assistant of William Huggins 

whom is credited as the "Father of Spectroscopy". 

  

We also had a discussion about Staunton River State Park in Virginia. This park is about 13 miles east of 

South Boston Virgina. The park is allowing us to come up the weekend of March 4th to camp and have a club 

observing weekend. They have 48 campsites with hot showers. 

  

The park has a large field to set up telescopes and they have full control of their out door lights. This means dark skies. 

  

So if you are interested in camping and observing over this weekend with dark skies. Let me know so I can tell the 

park ranger how many camp sites we will need. The telescopes are across the road from the camp sites and the 

park fairly secure. 

  

If you want more information you can get it here: 

  http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/sta.shtml 

  

Send me an email. 



Jayme Hanzak 
CHAOS President 

CHAOS 
P.O. Box 3001 
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0842 
http://www.rtpnet.org/chaos/ 




Jayme Hanzak 
CHAOS President 

CHAOS 
P.O. Box 3001 
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0842 
http://www.rtpnet.org/chaos/ 
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