Update: Campout is Nov. 6-8 at Mohawk group camp, Lake Cachuma. Please notify Refreshment Coordinators, Martin and Janet, if you will be there for Saturday evening potluck dinner.
Chuck & all,
This would be a good topic to put into the SBAU Forum to avoid crossing emails. I hope everyone is registered there? Nov 6-8 would be nice for the dark sky, except for messing with the 1st Friday general meeting consistency. Oh, well, cannot win on all fronts, so I would be good for moving the General Meeting date to Friday, Nov 13, if that works for Jerry. Should be cooler weather in November; maybe the no-see-ums biting bugs will be hibernating by then.
TomT
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On 6/22/2015 3:23 PM, Jerry A Wilson wrote:
> Hi Chuck
>
> I am planning on attending the AIC and close to the full moon does not appeal to me. The better date is November 6-8.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 6/22/2015 2:54 PM, Chuck McPartlin wrote:
>> AU Folks -
>>
>> Pat and I will be out of town for the next planning meeting, so I wanted
>> to get the date selection for the Cachuma campout on the table for everyone
>> to consider. We don't have to make a decision real soon, but there are
>> definite tradeoffs involved.
>>
>> I'm assuming that dates already set for things like Astrovaganza, second Saturday,
>> Avocado Festival, and the lunar eclipse are excluded.
>>
>> The remaining candidate weekends are:
>>
>> October 16/17/18 - 4 to 5 day old Moon, would mean skipping a Westmont
>> (for some folks), and conflicts with the AIC conference in San Jose.
>>
>> October 23/24/25 - Bright Moon, but no event conflicts.
>>
>> October 30/31/01 - Halloween and time change weekend, 3 and 4 days after Full Moon
>>
>> November 06/07/08 - Later than usual, conflict with monthly meeting, dark of Moon.
>>
>> Hasta nebula - Chuck
>> --
>> Chuck McPartlin
>>
macpuzl@west.net>>
http://www.sbau.org/>> --
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