Just in case you had not heard the news from the Great Basin National Park Astronomical Festival, They got permission to build and are going to build a research grade Observatory. * The observatory will be in the area near or off the road to the ranger housing. * The scope will be a 0.7 meter Planewave telescope with several other wide field scopes and cameras piggybacking. * Completion date August 2016 in celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of Great Basin National Park and the Centennial of the National Park Service. * The Great Basin National Park Foundation is the main contributor with several private contributors, with one contributor willing to match the last $350,000 in donation yet to be raised over the next year. http://www.greatbasinobservatory.org Jamie B "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com <mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".