Starhawk
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Loc: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5524567 - 11/17/12 03:31 PM
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Joe,
I asked a couple and they appeared quite happy. Sergei, Yuri's son, indicated they were quite surprised; they seemed to feel they had really good engagement with the user community at this conference. It's not a secret there's a veritable observatory field in this part of the country, so that may mean this is an inherently good spot to find the observers.
I have a suggestion which really conflicts with my nature- stride. Try and not do everything in one year if we have tours or such beforehand. So, if we get a list of items together, we can draw from it and do different things so people coming to ASAE for several years would have different experiences every year:
Near To Town
Old Tucson Studios
The Desert Museum
The International Wildlife Museum
Biosphere 2
Mount Lemmon Sky Center
University of Arizona Mirror Lab
Pima Air and Space Museum
Davis Monthan Boneyards
Tucson Botanical Gardens
Colossal Cave
Out of Town
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Whipple Observatory/ MMT
Titan Missile Museum
Chiricahua National Monument
Cochise Stronghold
Portal/ Jack Newton Sky Village
Some of these clearly are all-day events, while others are nearby, so there isn't a big time commitment. Likewise with some being obviously related to astronomy and others being quite diverse.
Thoughts?
-Rich
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Shneor
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/05
Loc: Northern California
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: rboe]
#5524651 - 11/17/12 04:33 PM
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If you need to rent a car anyway, fly into Phoenix and Tucson is only 80-90 minute ride south from the airport. An option anyway.
That's what I wanted to do...wife nixed it.
Clears,
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rboe
Reged: 03/16/02
Loc: Phx, AZ
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Shneor]
#5525019 - 11/17/12 08:14 PM
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Vince Tramazzo
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Loc: North of Tucson, AZ.
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5525085 - 11/17/12 09:01 PM
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One thing to take in consideration, when planning next years ASAE. This weekend is the El Tour De Tucson bicycle race. With several thousand riders, this could be a traffic problem. Last year over nine thousand cyclist entered the all day race.
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Joe Cipriano
Entropy Personified
Reged: 09/03/05
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Vince Tramazzo]
#5525231 - 11/17/12 10:29 PM
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One thing to take in consideration, when planning next years ASAE. This weekend is the El Tour De Tucson bicycle race. With several thousand riders, this could be a traffic problem. Last year over nine thousand cyclist entered the all day race.
Any idea if El Tour has a date set for next year? Alan would probably want to take that into account.
With the relative dearth of hotels in the TCC area, driving is an issue.
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Starhawk
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Reged: 09/16/08
Loc: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5525284 - 11/17/12 11:29 PM
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What if we just set up an ASAE CN Cabal? We could secretly meet and plan things...things the wider world will only become aware of when it's too late!
-Rich
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Vince Tramazzo
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Reged: 08/21/04
Loc: North of Tucson, AZ.
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5525305 - 11/17/12 11:47 PM
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As far as I know, It's the weekend before Thanksgiving.
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Joe Cipriano
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Vince Tramazzo]
#5525994 - 11/18/12 12:07 PM
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So, 23-24Nov would probably not be a good scheduling idea.
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Starhawk
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5526125 - 11/18/12 01:13 PM
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Ummm, right.
At the moment it's been cloudy much of November and I'm trying to remember if this is typical this time of year. My impression is it often is. I'm wondering about the probability of good skies- it seems to drop as the month goes on.
So, early November would appear to be more ideal.
-Rich
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TOM O
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Reged: 03/30/06
Loc: Joshua Tree CA.
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5526127 - 11/18/12 01:14 PM
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I have seen Kartchner Caverns and really enjoyed them. Someone mentioned sidewalk astronomy in the parking lot there? Great Arizona treasure!
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Gone caving
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Reged: 04/02/07
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Joe Cipriano]
#5603288 - 01/03/13 04:00 PM
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Dates have been posted November 16th and 17th 2013
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WaterMaster
Moat Keeper
Reged: 02/17/10
Loc: Southeast Idaho, USA
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: Gone caving]
#5655029 - 01/31/13 08:36 PM
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I've put it on my calendar - that means it's carved in stone  .
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Starhawk
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Re: ASAE- Looking Ahead to 2013
[Re: WaterMaster]
#5715100 - 03/05/13 06:54 PM
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In a way, I feel like the dates will take some pressure off the event. I'm not sure what to do about observing, though. Two weeks is pretty long to ask people to hang out for the conference and to see a new moon.
-Rich
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