Hi Mark, If it's a public park without a curfew, I don't see how anyone could object. But to be on the safe side I'd call the city or county parks department and tell them what I was planning. As far as SLAS goes, the public star parties are well-established events taking place either at the club's observatory site (with the approval of Stansbury Park), at parking lots of grocery stores that help sponsor them, at national or state parks after planning with park management, etc. The private star parties are held at places where camping is allowed, as far as I know. -- Thanks, Joe ________________________________ From: "msaengsoury@hotmail.com" <msaengsoury@hotmail.com> To: "utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:20 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Do I have permission...? Hello. This is Mark Saengsoury. I was curious about something. I've been wanting to get out a couple of nights a week and head on over to a park such as Winchester or Wheeler to stargaze a bit. I don't have the freetime to head out to a darksite so it's my next best option. When SLAS sets up public star parties at parks, do we ask permission from the city hall or whatnot? Or do we just settle on down whenever we want? I'd like to spend a couple of hours in a park, but I know parks give warnings that they close at like 10 pm or so. Would I be okay just hanging out there after hours or would I have to get some kind of permission? _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php