Town Hall, where all the meetings are held and the speakers present. By closing up some of the roll-up doors, it’s dark enough inside so that speakers can give Powerpoint presentations on a white wall built especially for that purpose. Speakers give their talks here, and various activities are held and announcements are made here. This is where you go to register, to pick up your RMSS t-shirts and hats and whatnot. What a view to the west!Īt the center of it all is the Town Hall – a large, long metal shed, essentially, with concrete flooring and big roll-up garage doors. One of the more isolated fields, away from everything. The organizers announced that just over 300 people had signed up, but there were about 40 or so no-shows. There are more isolated fields to camp in. This view is from one corner of the main observing field, looking southeast.īut, if you want to camp out away from everyone, off from the main group, you can do that, too. I think that’s more fun: to walk from campsite to campsite, visiting with people, being neighborly, and checking out their scopes and views. If you want to camp out next to someone, and in the thick of things, you can. RMSS is held on a sprawling 35-acre site a few miles north of Gardner, Colorado. It turned out to be the reverse – it was a nice camping trip with a little bit of observing. I thought RMSS was going to be a prolonged observing session with some camping thrown in. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?” Yeah, it was cloudy – all four days, um, nights. It was sort of like, “Other than that, Mrs. It was great! Well, except for the absolutely lousy stinking cloud-covered skies. I just flew in from the Rocky Mountain Star Stare in Gardner, CO, and boy are my arms tired. Tags 6mm 8mm 9.7mm 10mm 15mm 32mm AAA Arcturus binoviewers astrophotography atmospheric dispersion Baader binoculars binoviewers Bird-Jones Burnham's Celestial Handbook C9.25 Celestron collimate collimation customer service dark adaptation DAS DAS Dark site Denver Astronomical Society diagonal exit pupil Explore Scientific eyepieces field of view filter Great Orion Nebula Great Red Spot integrated magnitude Jupiter kellner light-polluted light pollution Light pollution reduction filter Luminos lunar eclipse Maksutov Mars Meade Messier meteor shower moon Moon & Skyglow Moon and Skyglow mount observing report observing session Orion Orion Sirius Pro AZ/EQ-G ortho orthoscopic outreach Perseids plossl red-dot finder Saturn science seeing Short Tube 80 Skywatcher SLT solar filter solar observing ST-80 star party Stellarium TeleVue trapezium Ultrablock Ultrascopic upgrade Archivesįollow Light-Polluted Astronomy on
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