SAS Members, Our group has been informed of a proposal, currently before the town of Homer, to build several LED billboards along I-81, not far from Darling Hill Observatory. Several members of our board of directors attended a town board meeting and I spoke against the proposal. I need not tell you what LED billboards would do to the dark skies around Darling Hill. The blinding lights would harm wildlife, distract drivers, lower property values and blight the whole area not to mention ruin the dark skies we all enjoy. We have received requests for assistance from concerned […]
Anthony Krishock
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*** SAS Members *** Come and join us at Darling Hill Observatory in Tully for our public session tonight, 8/11! We’ll have clear, moonless skies and pleasant temperatures tonight. We’ll have plenty of telescopes on the field for you to look through or bring your own. Bring a comfortable lawn chair and a light jacket and maybe a pair of binoculars and watch some of the Perseid meteor shower. See you on the Hill! Anthony Krishock President, SAS
SAS Members, After watching the forecast it seems that tomorrow night will be much clearer than tonight, so we’ve decided to reschedule our Member’s observing session to Saturday, 7/22 See you then!
SAS Members, Due to some recent construction on site at Darling Hill, we will have to cancel our public session scheduled for Friday, 7/14. We recently took down our deck that was around our main building and there is still quite a bit of construction debris as well as some holes in the ground that we’re digging for new posts. It’s difficult enough to move around in the daytime and worse at night. We should be ready to go for our member session the following Friday, 7/21, weather permitting.