General Astronomy Topics

So far my wife and I have attended 2 outreach events, Country Day and the last Pelican Park outreach.

We are curious as to whether members meet up, unofficially, when the skies are clear.

This coming weekend we are headed to Franklinton to stay at some tiny house out in the middle of nowhere. Figured we would get some Bogue Chitto fishing time during the day, and tour the sky at night (weather permitting...grrrrrr).

But other than that, most of our viewing is in my Metry backyard, sometimes on top of the levee in Jefferson Parish, and we have been out to the spillway (which we have been advised is not that safe due to bad people out there). I have looked at the light pollution map and see near Middendorf's/Lake Borgne is pretty dark, but we haven't had a chance to get out there.

So do you guys ever meet up outside of outreach events and other sanctioned events to tour the sky?

Thanks.

I have meet up with people a few times outside of our normal events. Typically it is either at somebody’s house or on the lakefront. There is an old golf course in Abita Springs that I like to take my telescope to. The sky is super dark there compared to the majority of St Tammany and there are no streetlights. If anyone ever expressed interest in meeting up in the area for a casual night of observing I would be interested if free. I just got a Pegasus Smarteye so I have been looking for any opportunity to play with it.