[AZ-Observing] SAC Novice Group meeting on Saturday night

Tomorrow night is the Saguaro Astronomy Club Novice Group meeting at the
Flatiron site.  Please leave early enough, say 4:00 PM, to get to the site
early.  That way you can show up in time to see the telescope being set up,
that may answer some of your questions right then.  I will give a short talk
in twilight and then the novices and the learned will mingle for observing
and questions.

All that is needed to attend is a warm jacket and an interest in viewing the
sky.  Obviously, if you would like to join the club later, that would be great.

Hope to see you there;
Steve Coe
SAC Vice Pres.

Flatiron Site directions

This observing site is an 80 mile drive from central Phoenix,
If you will leave about 90 minutes before sunset, there will be
plenty of time to find the site, set up your scope, enjoy a little 
picnic and chat before it gets dark.

Travel west from Phoenix on I-10 until you get to Exit 103, the 339th Ave.
exit.  Rip Griffin's Truck Stop is at this exit.  Go north (right) on 339th
Ave. for 2 miles and then turn west (left) on Indian School Rd.  Go 2 mi.
and then turn north (right) on 355th Ave.  This road becomes Wickenburg Road
along the way.

Go 12.2 miles.  You will pass "Flatiron" Mountain on the left, hence the
name of the site.  At mile marker 23.3 you will turn east (right) onto a
wide dirt road.  (This road does NOT run along a fence line.  If it does,
you went too far and are on the wrong dirt road.  The correct dirt road is
to the south of the road with the fence.)  If you go too far on Wickenburg
Road, there is a cattle guard and a Bureau of Land Management sign
immediately along the road to let you know you missed the turnoff.

Note your odometer reading when you turn onto the dirt road.  The site is
0.9 miles from the pavement.  The dirt road goes through a wash and the site
is on the left after you have traveled through the wash.  It is a large
area of desert pavement on the left side of the road.  Some white rocks mark
the entrance to the observing site.  The trip is all on hard surface roads,
until you turn onto the dirt road, which is well maintained.


stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx
Author:  Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist
Saguaro Astronomy Club web site:
www.saguaroastro.org

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