[Chaos-l] Robbins Star Party

Sun Oct 7 17:36:35 EDT 2012

Terrible news -- unless Robbins people will pick up the ball. with help
from nearby astronomers and clubs.
 I believe we can. It is time to address issues like those John Dilday
mentions on the MASP website, but it has long been time for this to be
managed locally. It is tough for him to do it long distance. I've had
recent talks with some Robbins people about the advantage of support for an
astronomical village development near or in town, and the response was very
favorable

Mayor English and three former mayors (Bell, Brady, and Brown – 3Bs!) could
work together with other in Robbins and rescue this event  by reviving it
under local auspices.

Robbins board could move expeditiously to enact sky-friendly ordinances,
policies and other measures that would get favorable attention from Star
Party attenders. They'd help formulate them.

Robbins could revive the Dark Park plan.

Carthage saved its Buggy Festival when it was threatened. Robbins can save
its Star Party.

John Chappell

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thigpen Office <
thigpenjenkins at embarqmail.com> wrote:

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> *From:* "Peggy L. Hussey" <peggylh at embarqmail.com>
> *Date:* October 7, 2012 2:21:09 PM EDT
> *To:* <thigpenjenkins at embarqmail.com>
> *Subject:* *Fw: Robbins Star Party*
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Kim B. <luv2sewgirl at yahoo.com>
> *To:* peggylh at embarqmail.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 07, 2012 2:08 PM
> *Subject:* Robbins Star Party
>
>      Hey Peggy,
>
> Well--got online to see some very disappointing news this morning.  The
> "Mid-Atlantic Star Party" ( www.masp.us ) held just outside of Robbins
> for nearly 20 years, and due to happen next week has just been cancelled.
> I had planned to go to it next weekend, and had a couple people from the
> Astronomy class I'm taking here at RCC, planning to go and camp out there.
>
> Quite a few people I met there, over the past two years I attended, had
> made this a yearly pilgrimage, like I had begun to do.
>
> I think the real problem  was the owner/organizer (lived around Chapel
> Hill or Raleigh I believe), and lack of planning, advertising, etc. for the
> event.
>
> I was just thinking--this would be a great opportunity for the Town of
> Robbins to take advantage of the dark skies and organize their own star
> party(s), especially when people have shown a long time interest in this
> sort of thing.  Robbins knows how to organize events because of Farmers
> Day.....
>
> BTW, is Farmer's Day profitable for the town?
>
> Just some thoughts.  Read the comments below from a skywatcher club email
> list I receive.  Sigh.....
>
> Kim Brown
>
> Below is the link to the star party in Robbins(it did have information
> about the event posted up until now), and the link beneath it is a website
> to a successfully ongoing star party near the border of Virginia.
>
> http://www.masp.us/
>
> http://www.chaosastro.com/starparty/
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Comments from email list.....
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>
> Well Shit......................
>
> I knew it would come to this..
>
> Too much competition.. not enough zest from the "owner" of MASP to do the
> right things to make a difference.
>
> Thank goodness for the competition........... we do have choices.
>
> As for my plans.. I will observe somewhere after SRSP .. a night or two
> here at home, Maybe a night or two at Medoc.
>
> Sad day for me.. I always enjoyed MASP.
>
>  Mark Clegg
> Pittsboro, N.C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Davis <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>
> To: medoc-mountain-men <medoc-mountain-men at rapideye.us>; chaos-l <
> chaos-l at rtpnet.org>; starstorm151 <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 11:24 am
> Subject: [Medoc-mountain-men] Fw: MASP-NOT
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> I am not surprised about this...but I will say that it does sadden me.
> I made many observing friends there including a number of you.
>
> I have been to all of them....all 17 or 18.
> I guess ill have to find something else
> Too bad...but looking forward to Staunton river and whatever else presents
> itself.....really is a part of my life that is important to me and my
> meeting good people
> Allen
>
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> From: cstarks at carolina.rr.com <http://us.mc1302.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cstarks@carolina.rr.com>
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> Sent: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 15:11:24 GMT+00:00
> Subject: MASP-NOT
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> Allen, have you seen this?
> http://masp.us/
>
> Charlie
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