[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] tonight

[Robert Nielsen]

Mickey,

The cool thing is that the superintendent of Medoc Mountain State Park came up to me (and at least one other person) Saturday night, and told me how he had found out about the "statewide star party" and on his own contacted the planetarium to become involved!   Combine this with the advertising video from Staunton River State Park that mentions "dark skies and observing" as one of their draws and I think *we* (Morehead, CHAOS, RAC) are starting to make significant inroads in getting state parks to realize the skies are a resource, and perhaps cater to astronomers as visitors!

Robert

On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:53 AM, "Sorrell, Mickey Jo" <sorrell at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Yes, folks, there will be a statewide star party as part of the NC Science Festival.
> 
> The date is Friday, April 5, and Amy Sayle and I are the coordinators.
> We'll be speaking about this at the December CHAOS meeting.
> We are aiming for at least 25 skywatching venues across North Carolina.
> 
> We are eager to have CHAOS participation and we'd love to get the Medoc Mountain group involved as well.
> 
> Mickey Jo Sorrell
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> Cc: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society; North Carolina Observers That Chase Photons In Medoc MountainState Park
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> Hi Robert.
> 
>> It is part of [...] http://www.ncsciencefestival.org
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> That's what i needed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> J.
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