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RogerRZ
Whatta you lookin' at?
Reged: 01/09/06
Posts: 2159
Loc: West Collette, NB, Canada
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Hey all just wanted to let you know that after going through the motions, my local utility replaced both of my offending cobrahead streetlights with flat bottom, full cutoff fixtures.
I can now have my observatory 75' from my house, and be close to the comforts of home, in relative darkness (21.3 on the unihedron)
It took a few emails, and a couple of weeks, but the whole affair was quite seamless...
All one has to do is ask. Sometimes, you never know...
(edits to make things easier to read...)
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-Roger Pitre-
1 X 7 binocular
Meade 2080 LX10
5" Celestron SCT
Skywatcher Equinox 66
Starblast OTA
EQ6 Pro mount (spiffed up with ADM stuff)
8X42 Bushnell binos (pretty decent for 25$)
Canon Rebel XT (AKA 350D)
Starshoot autoguider
Tolerant Spousal Unit (AKA The Lovely Mrs. RogerRZ)
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Edited by RogerRZ (05/26/08 04:24 PM)
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Tom L
Reged: 01/07/04
Posts: 29817
Loc: Sunny Oregon
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Excellent!
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Tom 
Tele Vue 102mm f/8.6 on an EzTouch
Vixen 80mm f/5 A80SSWT on a grab-n-go mount
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 28564
Loc: montana
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Rodger, thanks for letting us know, that with a little effort, sometimes a positive result happens!
Congratulations to you & kudos to your utility company!
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Carol
AstroTech 16" Dob (Thanks ASTRONOMICS!)
AstroTech 66ED / Vixen 80MF/AstroTech Voyager
Masuyama's 7.5, 15, 25W, 35mm,
Tak LE 5mm B/TMB 3.2
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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RogerRZ
Whatta you lookin' at?
Reged: 01/09/06
Posts: 2159
Loc: West Collette, NB, Canada
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Yep, they were very good about it. After an initial email, a very nice lady called back, and I explained my problem, and what I'd like to have done. I know that removing the lights was not on the list of possibilities (the local service district pays for these lights, and going through them would have been time consuming), but I knew that full-cutoff fixtures were floating around, so I asked for that. A couple of days later, a man from NB Power came and asked me again what it was I wanted. He said no problem, we'll get right on it. A week later, things happened.
I'll send a thank you note to the company, as they could have made things a lot more complicated...
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-Roger Pitre-
1 X 7 binocular
Meade 2080 LX10
5" Celestron SCT
Skywatcher Equinox 66
Starblast OTA
EQ6 Pro mount (spiffed up with ADM stuff)
8X42 Bushnell binos (pretty decent for 25$)
Canon Rebel XT (AKA 350D)
Starshoot autoguider
Tolerant Spousal Unit (AKA The Lovely Mrs. RogerRZ)
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 28564
Loc: montana
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Quote:
I'll send a thank you note to the company, as they could have made things a lot more complicated...
Appreciation builds goodwill 
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Carol
AstroTech 16" Dob (Thanks ASTRONOMICS!)
AstroTech 66ED / Vixen 80MF/AstroTech Voyager
Masuyama's 7.5, 15, 25W, 35mm,
Tak LE 5mm B/TMB 3.2
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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chexmix
sage
Reged: 12/01/04
Posts: 346
Loc: Arlington, MA, USA
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Quote:
All one has to do is ask. Sometimes, you never know...
SO true. Even I, with my usually-grim view of things, have to admit that this is definitely true.
After all, it's pretty certain that if one DOESN'T ask, nothing will happen! 
Reading your good news brightened my day. Thanks!
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8" Discovery DHQ
Celestron C102-HD
9x63 Orion mini-giants
(2) Frontally-placed visual organs, incl. lens, vitreous/aqueous humors, assorted rods, cones.
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Illinois
professor emeritus
Reged: 12/18/06
Posts: 556
Loc: near Chicago, Illinois USA
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Great!
Thank you note to the company is a great idea!
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Astronomer since 1975!
Meade 16" Lightbridge Dobsonian
Orion 10" SkyQuest Classic Dobsonian
Tele Vue Eyepieces
Orion Expanse Wide-Field 6mm eyepiece
4.5" F5 Reflector since 1982!
Orion Narrowband and SkyGlow filters
Member of IDA, let's fight light pollution!
Old Edmund 6"F8...donated to cousins
Super Polaris C8...donated to Byron Observatory in Illinois
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