Lowell Observatory Trip 2005

September 2004  : 

April 30 - May 6, 2005

Once again Skyscrapers will be embarking on another great trip, this time to the historic Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. It's from this observatory that Percival Lowell made his famous observations of the "canals" on Mars. It is also the observatory used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover the planet Pluto in 1930 using the 13" astrograph.

Skyscrapers members will have the exclusive use of Lowell's 24” Clark refractor for three nights; Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Information about some of our planned destinations:

Sunset Crater

Walnut Canyon & Wutpaki Ruins

Montezuma's Castle

Sedona

Lowell Observatory

US Naval Observatory

Meteor Crater

Petrified Forest

The Grand Canyon

Hopi Indians

THE TRIP IS NOW FILLED - SORRY!
If you’re interested in going, email Dan Lorraine at DWLorraine@aol.com to be added to the list and receive periodic updates as details are firmed up.


We recently received this letter from Steele Wotkyns, the Public Relations Manager at Lowell:
I was looking for Internet references to Lowell Observatory tonight (as I do from time to time), and came across your fine site. It's well organized, I really like the design, and it was nice to learn a little about Skyscrapers in the process.

I see that some of your group is planning a visit to Mars Hill in the spring. That's terrific. We look forward to welcoming you here.

In the meantime, I wanted to introduce you to a resource we have that I hope you would consider to link to from your Web site:StarTales

We publish it daily on our site, Discovery.com (science section) has a link, and it appears in a few local and Arizona media. See About StarTales
We would be very pleased to include Skyscrapers among a growing group of StarTales co-publishers, and could offer you a reciprocal link in the About StarTales section and on our links page under About Lowell.

Also, I would like to draw your attention to the Lowell Star Party (3rd annual edition). It is planned for Sept. 29 though Oct. 2, 2005. It has been a seriously great event given the combination of an extremely dark sky observing site and tours and talks by our astronomers and other top flight area scientists. Here's an article from Astronomy to give you some insights into highlights from last year's event.

It would be great if you might list the Lowell Observatory Star Party, 2005 edition on your calendar.

Anyway, I hope to hear back from you sometime, please give our very best regards to other members of your group, and we look forward to meeting with the Skyscrapers face to face in the coming year.

sincerely yours,

Steele Wotkyns
Public Relations Manager
Lowell Observatory
www.lowell.edu