[Lvas] Desert observing tips / Anybody up for observing this week?

[Rob]

Jonathan,

Tomorrow night and Friday night we have a couple of Education Outreach 
Events we are doing.  Thursday night we are up at Camp Foxtail on Mt 
Charleston for a 5th Grade Elementary Class and Friday night we are at 
Sunset Park for the Las Vegas Area Council Scout Expo.  We're expecting 
around 500 Scouts to visit our scopes Friday night.

We may have some folks going out Saturday night to the Redstone Picnic 
Area on Northshore Road which is north of Lake Mead Blvd.  That's about 
as dark a site as we can get only 30 miles outside of Vegas.

My wife is in the hospital following major surgery this morning, so I 
probably will not be able to make it to Redstone Saturday night.  Some 
other time I would have loved to take you out to observe.

As for the critters, we've never had a problem being attacked by anything.

If you're interested in helping with either of the EOP events, drop 
David Blanchette a line at David.Blanchette at lvastronomy.org.  Also check 
out our website at www.lvastronomy.org. It will have maps to the sites.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Rob Lambert
President, LVAS


Jonathan Kade wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My wife and I are visiting from Detroit (she's in town for a
> conference).  We brought along our 66mm achromat, a Voyager mount,
> some eyepieces, her 15x70s, and our box of astrocards.  We're heavily
> involved with the Warren Astronomical Society
> (http://www.warrenastro.org) there and thought we'd get in touch with
> club members here.  We've exclusively visual/non-goto observers
> ourselves, but we're not religious about it.
>
> We did a little bit of observing last night at the Lake Mead
> recreation area just past the dam (just checking out Mercury before it
> set), but the light dome from Vegas was pretty impressive.
>
> We were a little bit apprehensive about desert critters.  How big a
> problem are the mountain lions and javelinas?  Any other things one
> might encounter in the desert we should be aware of?
>
> If anybody is interested in going out sometime this week (we're
> leaving Sunday morning), we'd love to go.  Otherwise, any tips and
> tricks are appreciated!
>
> Clear skies,
>
> Jonathan
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