[LVAS] Valley Of Fire?

[David Blanchette]

At 02:42 PM 11/15/2009, you wrote:
>All,
>
>Still waiting to hear a report on Valley of Fire. With all the 
>winds, did anyone get to see anything, or was it just a wash? For a 
>while I got upset because I went outside at 6PM and it was calm. 
>However a half hour later, it was howling outside again as that 
>other front moved in. I can imagine it was the same out at VOF.
>

I got there about 4:15.  Calm as the eye of a hurricane. Rob and I 
set up.  If we're going to continue to go out there, we need to get 
some traffic cones to control the traffic, keeps the headlights out 
of our eyes.

The sky was a little darker than Redstone.  Vegas was bright, in 
fact, brighter than usual.  On the way home, I saw that the Speedway 
lights were on, and I think that actually added to the regular Vegas 
light dome.

Along about 7, the wind started coming up.  The few remaining public 
decided they'd seen enough.  Temperature was around 47 degrees.  The 
wind became gusty, and was shaking the telescopes too much for visual 
observing, so we closed down and hit the road about 8pm.

There is definite potential for this site.  We'll have to see if we 
can work out a schedule between Red Rocks and VOF.

-- David