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Just a quick note to show the email I sent to the Soaring Club President to say thanks for the opportunity to check out their facilities last night.
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Dear Wayne,
Thanks for the opportunity to try your Soaring Club last night Saturday the 13th Feb.
Your facilities are excellent, and Kurt was helpful and obliging during our visit as well.
Four of the regular visitors to our Astronomy group turned up to check out the site and look at the lighting
as well as the potential observing areas around the club grounds.
Lighting is of great importance to us when observing. We try to minimise the lighting when observing as we try hard to preserve our " night vision".
Thus enabling us to see more of the dull / dim object in the sky that otherwise would not be able to be seen.
Unfortunately, the club grounds have some nearby street lighting that doesnt help us at all.
There is also the exterior lighting on the clubhouse that although doesnt work at present, will
be repaired sometime in the future and then will also detract from our efforts to preserve our nght vision.
As the Caretaker Kurt, or a member of the Soaring Club would have to be on-site during our observing sessions, it
would also be unfair to ask Kurt / or member to remain in the Clubhouse in darkness while we are on-site observing in the field.
The general opinion of the four attendees on Saturday night, was that we should remain at our present place of observing which is at the nearby Pony Club.
Once again, I thank you for all your help in getting us to the point of trying the arifeld for our use in Astronomy.
But we have decided not to use it for our Astronomy use.
Best regards
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