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The old-timers will remember SkyJim.<br /><br />His club (The Local Group of Santa Clarita Valley) in CA and mine (and NEVERS) (Sedona Astronaomy Club) in AZ have been doing a joint star party in the White Mountains, Inyo National Forest in August the last couple of years. We had such a good observing site up there that we lost it last summer to construction.<br /><br />The March 06 Sky & Telescope has an article on page 22 about the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). These are the radio telescopes that took over our observing site (group camps) in the White Mountains. Well actually they took over the other group camps, we lost ours (Pinon) to administration buildings.<br /> <br />Nine 6.1 and six 10.4 meter dishes are living up there, should be functioning as a single telescope in mid-2006.<br /><br />This year we are planning on going up from 7000ASL to 8000ASL (Grandview campground) just so we don't have to cancel the event. Anyone taking a trip out our way is welcome to join us.<br /><br />We'll check out the new group camps and see if they are any good for observing.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1" color="#3366ff">www.siriuslookers.org</font> </div>