For fear of being shot down, I'll ask anyway
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What's the etiquette of taking a generator to a dark-sky meet? (assuming one can assure of "quiet" operation in a suitably sound-proofed box), not talking about continuous operation either but enough to provide some charging, or even running it in the daytime after a night's observing/imaging session when I guess the observing fields should be void of ppl (that last statement is also an assumption as I've never attended a SP or dark sky meet...)
http://www.campertrailers.org/soundproof_box.htm
cheers