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Thx to Greg, Geoff and Alan who made the effort to come along and check out the site with me.
I was a little dissapointed in the roll up actually.
Appologies received from Rick and Arthur who couldnt make it.
My feelings are that the PC is still better for a number of reasons discussed amongst us on-site.
Even though the good horizon has a lot to offer, the local street lighting isnt favourable at all. To get away from lights, we would have to venture a long way from the Clubhouse down the Airfield, which would be too far from the ammenities and the power.
There is also the issue of security lighting on the main building.
They presently appear to be wired to a non-working day-night sensor that would normally bring them on after dark automatically.
While the security lights arent working at the moment, when they are repaired it looks like they cant be turned off easily via the clubhouse building.
A lot of orange glow from sodium lights was also noted from the nearby intersection at Central Mangrove.
Another disadvantage was that there was a local "spotlight Shooter" nearby shining lights onto trees and we could hear the sound of firearms being used nearby. Even though this may not be happening all the time, this doesnt really appeal to me either.
At least we gave it a go, and saw first hand what it would be really like.
I am happy to keep the PC as our observing site unless anyone else has any further input.
Geoffro
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