Hi Dennis,
I spent Friday and Saturday nights observing with my youngest Son at
Fiddletown. I always take a mosquito net when I go out on an observing trip.
I was very surprised that there were no mosquitoes there the whole weekend!
But there were a ton of killer ants that would not come out until just after
sunset. They were so bad I had to tuck my pants bottoms into my sock so the
darn ants would'nt get to my legs.
The really bad new about the Fiddletown observing site is that there is a
new, very large house under construction and nearly finished. The land
owners cut down all the trees that obscured their southern view! It's a
three story house with large windows all over the south side. Friday night
all the house lights came on at about 9:30pm and stayed on till about
11:00pm. The lights are so bright I'm afraid that the site will be unusable!
There is another building near to the house, It has a very strange type of
outdoor light. This light pulsates from about 150 watts to 300 watts every
ten to fifteen minutes. I could not believe it!
I fear I'll have to drop Fiddletown from my list of observing sites. :-(
Rashad
----Original Message Follows----
From: Dennis Beckley <dbeckley94510@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: The Astronomy Connection <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
To: sf-bay-tac@seds.org
Subject: [TAC] West Nile Virus
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
Just received word that four birds have tested
positive for West Nile Virus in Sacramento County.
Just something else to worry about when we're up in
the foothills observing (along with the odd mountain
lion!).
Do take all precautions when out in mosquito country.
Dennis Beckley
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Received on Mon Jul 26 11:57:01 2004