[AZ-Observing] Re: Lights off in downtown for Earth Hour ?? Reports from Fountain Hills and GRCO in Gilbert
- From: "Keith Parizek" <keithparizek@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:04:47 -0700
Hi Gene- My take on the Black out was the same as yours. It was a bust.
The most intense light dome from Rio Verde is toward Fountain Hills, Mesa,
Tempe, Apache Junction although it is a low dome. The Phoenix, Scottsdale,
Glendale, Peoria dome is blocked by the McDowell mountains at low
elevation, but above these mountains the appearance is amazingly uniform in
brightness. Boy, what a contrast looking east.
Next time one of these dark nights is planned the orgainizers should hun t
up the guy who had everybody standing alongside the road on the Fourth of
July, 1976 singing God Bless America. This tme we could all hold hands and
sing When the Lights Go on Again all over the world.
Regards
Keith Parizek
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From: "gene lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AZ-Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:13 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Lights off in downtown for Earth Hour ?? Reports
from Fountain Hills and GRCO in Gilbert
Greetings, fellow Earth Watchers...
No effect was noted up here in Fountain Hills from Fish Point Overlook
on Shea Blvd during Earth Hour tonite. (I can see the Tovrea Castle
lights from Fish Point, but nothing farther to the west -- a hill is in
the way.) No changes were noted (visually) over the
Tempe-Mesa-Scottsdale panorama. (As expected) no effect was noted
visually during the interval ca. 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm. (If I had an SQM,
I would have used it...)
I chatted with two couples in the parking area at Fish Point who came
out specifically for the Earth Hour.
Not a hope of any change in my neighborhood, of course. All of FH was
blazing away as usual for a Saturday evening.
The sky was pretty hazy, with light wind from the W-NW up here in the
eastern McDowell foothills. I could see Polaris and the end two stars,
but not any of the fainter stars in the Little Dipper (typical in this
neighborhood for early evening).
I hope you folks had fun downtown, courtesy of Mayor Gordon. Will
expect a full report later....
Martin Thompson reported they had over 100 visitors by 7:45 pm, and a
total of 215 through the dome at GRCO in Gilbert tonight. He reports he
thought he saw a slight improvement in sky darkness to the West during
the Earth Hour; visibility improved on the Pleiades. (Over 628 visitors
came out earlier during the DAY at the Riparian for the "Feathered
Friends" activities.)
There is now a telephone line with 56K modem hooked up to the GRCO dome
(courtesy of the Riparian), so we can connect to the internet. Also a
weather station that logs data every 15 minutes to the PC in the dome,
as well as a GPS.
Cheers,
Gene
(17250)
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