Eileen, Ida, Dave and I are at Black Mesa State Park (BMSP) for an outreach’s event with Pollyanna, the Park Manager. There may be some other club members here, too, that I haven’t seen yet. It starts at 2000.
Eileen went over the application for International Dark Sky certification for the park with Pollyanna. Hopefully the park will recieve that certification soon! But even without it, BMSP is getting quite the reputation as a place to go for dark sky viewing. The park store owner told me they’ve been getting folks from all over the county and even from other countries coming here to gaze at the stars in Bortle 1 skies.
The forecast is still iffy for tonight, but we’ve got our fingers crossed we’ll be able to see something here tonight. I hope the folks at All Members Night tonight get some good viewing too!