Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Howdy all; The re-try on the Sentinel-Schwaar Star Gaze is set for next weekend, = April 25 and 26. The directions to the site are below. If you are the = owner of a tarp stand for getting out of the sun during the day, I would = recommend bringing it. Jack Jones is getting in contact with the = company for delivery of a portable toilet for the weekend. Personally, = I will not be able to make it until Saturday afternoon, my beautiful = wife has tickets to a play on Friday night and I am her date. So, = please avoid the "you should have been here last night" jibe. I look = forward to some good, dark observing with a large group of folks and = scopes. Steve Coe Grand Po-Bah of the Sentinel-Schwaar Star Gaze=20 The Sentinel-Schwaar Star Gaze is a chance for astronomers to meet at an = Arizona dark sky site. It is sponsored by the Deep Sky Group of the = Saguaro Astronomy Club in memory of Pierre Schwaar. There is no = registration and no fee to attend, just show up and enjoy the night sky. = In the past, folks have arrived on Friday, for two nights of observing. = There are no facilities at the site, it is just a large flat area in = the middle of the desert southwest. It gets both hot and cold, = depending on the whim of the weather, so bring cool water and warm = clothes. Please be courteous about white light, many observers and = photographers are going after very dim objects. =20 To get to the site, drive to Gila Bend, AZ. and get on the I-8 freeway = going west toward Yuma. The Sentinel exit is #87, about 30 miles west = from Gila Bend. Take the exit and go south, under the freeway and = across the railroad tracks. Go straight south on the dirt road and = drive 2 miles until you see a large, flat area of the desert to your = left, white rocks mark the site. It is before a cattle guard. YOU ARE = THERE! =20 Steve Coe Author "Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist" Saguaro Astronomy Club website www.saguaroastro.org -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: image/jpeg -- File: clip_image002.jpg -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.