Patrick posted to send Dark Sky locations to Sheena, I am posting to encourage people not to. It was not an invitation to critic the idea. If you don't want a topic discussed on UA don't post it. Really I will be surprised if the article gets past the editor. Erik Sounds like perhaps it's time to talk about SLAS purchasing dark-site land
somewhere. Again.
Utah is growing, you can't expect your little hide-aways to remain secluded for long. I'm not mocking anyone's attitude about their favorite dark sites, just being realistic. The only practical, legal way to keep the public away is to own the land you observe on, either individually, as a co-op, or the SLAS corporation owns it with paid members having a use privilege.
Many other clubs have purchased dark-site land for this very reason. A good thing is never a secret forever.
I believe Sheena wanted suggestions emailed to her, there's no guarantee that she is monitoring list postings. I would suggest if anyone feels strongly enough about it to post here, that they forward their thoughts to her email. Patrick posted it in the first message on this topic. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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