--- Ann House <ann@annhouse.org> wrote:
Thanks for passing along the article, Kurt. I enjoyed the information very much. How did you happen upon it??
One of the principles in the article has been posting about it to sci.astro.amateur trying to drum up letters in support.
It is true, we don't want to stretch our resources too much and I would need some interest from SLAS (and Clark too?!) to go ahead. Is Bryce and Canyonlands all we can handle? Arches, at least, wound not be in the summer. 107 is just too hot. Spring or Autumn would be best. I probably ought to contact the park ranger fairly soon.
I don't personally have an opinion on the Arches/Zions/Capitol Reef/Great Basin resource spread, not being at a point in my evolution as an amateur where I am attending the Zions/Capitol Reef/Great Basin campouts. It might be helpful to have Chad Moore give you a Utah NPS park data on nightsky recreation use for each of the Utah parks. That might be a good basis to decide where limited SLAS resources might best go to the maximum effect on the public. Personally, I have a half-formed plan to try to combine a nightsky trip to DeadHorse and to take a picture of the Moon rising over the exit canyon of the meteor crater at Upheaval Dome - unless Tom Till has beaten me too it. -:) - Kurt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com