[LVAS] Valley Of Fire?

[Fred Rayworth]

Dave,

 

Thanks for the report!

 

Fred


 
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:50:38 -0800
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> From: Yahoo at awit.com
> Subject: Re: [LVAS] Valley Of Fire?
> 
> 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 
> 
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