Are SDAS out tonight?

Hey there.

The weather looks promising and I'm wondering if SDAS are planning anything tonight? I know we had a little trouble with an observing site on Sunday but dark skies are dark skies.

Hi Paul,

For some reason I missed this post.

As it turned out there was no observing session last night. I had one other query but I couldn't go out last night so we decided to leave it.

On the plus side, I was up by Cloon this afternoon and it has been re-opened . You can't go as far down the road as you used to be able to but the car park area is now a lot bigger.

Michael.

Michael.

I was down in Glendalough this afternoon, I stopped in at the forestry walk opposite Trooperstown Lodge Guest House, located just before Laragh. It looks a promising site for observing, there is no barrier across the road and a drive of about two hundred metres take you to a car park that is in a dip and well shielded from the road. It's a decent sized space, not too level, but what can you do? and might be worth checking out.

Hi Paul,

That sounds promising. Is the car park tarmac or gravel/grass?

Michael.

Hi Michael

It's the typical hard compacted material you generally find in these council car parks, neither concrete nor gravel, a horrible mixture of the two.

In other words..............crap for balancing a scope tripod on.