Many surrounding states have a major star party in the summer that is not an outreach event, but is a star party for amateurs to gather. A few of us are going to organize for next summer the first Utah Star Party that will be open to any amateur who wants to come and observe. We will be meeting in January around full moon to begin planning and choosing a date, location etc. This is not affliated with any club or organization though they are of course welcome to participate, but is to be just an event open to anyone in Utah or the country to come and have four or five days of hopefully good observing in some of the best skies in the country. If your interested in helping to plan this please let me know at Jay.Eads at yahoo dot com (fix it to normal email). Nothing to big, just a good time to go out and observe. Thanks, Jay