Nice, encouraging report, Lowell. --- On Mon, 8/16/10, Lowell Lyon <bolide@sisna.com> wrote: From: Lowell Lyon <bolide@sisna.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Gravel-Pit Site in Brown's Canyon To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:22 PM Hello: My wife and I had a nice time observing Perseids from the gravel pit site in Brown's Canyon. Friday night into Saturday morning I went back up with a telescope and had an enjoyable evening. The sky was exceptionally clear and steady with just a slight breeze once in a while, not enough to be a bother at all. This is still a very good observing site being as close to Salt Lake as it is. You now set up in front of gates restricting vehicular travel into the gravel quarry itself. I don't find this a problem either. It actually is better now that there is no traffic at all after dark (except for those bringing up scopes). There is an animal shelter of some sort a short distance away that was built since I was at the site late time, yet it does not seem to make any noise and what light it generates didn't really bother me either. There is a bit more development along the access road yet not enough in my opinion to keep people from using this site for a while longer. I still like the higher elevation of this area versus the observing sites west of Salt Lake particularly with the nice eastern sky. I have been up to the gravel quarry site in late Fall and it was still quite pleasant being above the haze and temperature inversions of Salt Lake. I hope to see more people still use this site if you want to stay within an hour of Salt Lake. Those wanting to go a bit further away next new moon, I hope that we'll see as many of you as possible at Capitol Reef National Park over Labor Day Weekend. Thanks. Lowell Lyon _______________________________________________ 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 Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com