[AZ-Observing] Re: Report: Friday night at the Antennas site...

  • From: "Bill VanOrden" <beevo1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 11:06:48 -0700

Naw, just trying to figure out which one was the most tender and juicy...

Beevo
K7BVO

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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Report: Friday night at the Antennas site...

I don't remember who it was, Gerry Rattly?, who said that years ago at a 
California star party there was a mountain lion off to the side laying 
down looking at everyone. No one else knew it was there. Could it have 
been devising a strategy on getting the most observers it could in one 
frontal assault?
Stan

On 8/7/2011 9:50 AM, pulind@xxxxx wrote:
> I didn’t think you guys were crazy at all.  I did one-nighters with my 12.5 
> inch a few miles north of there at Hovatter Norte several times in the dead 
> of summer.  The trick is to get out of there before 9:30 am the next morning. 
>  It was actually very pleasant.  I would usually try to assess whether the 
> western boundary of the monsoon air mass was somewhere between here and there 
> before going out.  I was always concerned about stepping on a lime-green 
> Crotalus Scutulatus because they are out at night in the summer and that is 
> one venomous critter.  Fortunately, like all snakes, they head for the hills 
> if they sense you stomping their way.  It is nevertheless wise to shine a 
> bright red light on where you are going to step because they could be 
> cornered.  They do rattle like a machine gun if frightened, so you will get a 
> warning that invokes an instantaneous primordial reaction (levitating, 
> shrieking, and backstepping mightily all in one action).  I did fieldwork out 
> in tha
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