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Buzzygirl

Well, mtn-man refused to approve my event page, as it apparently wasn't focused enough on geocaching. So, here's the scoop on the stargazing event.

When: Saturday, November 6, 2004 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Where: Baylor Regional Park, Norwood-Young America, MN
Why: To introduce interested geocachers to the beauty of the night sky.

Please join me and other members of the Minnesota Astronomical Society's Onan Observatory for an evening under the stars. The Milky Way is quite visible from this location. If the skies are clear, we'll be viewing galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, and perhaps even the Northern Lights. Our observatory has a very large telescope, and other members may bring their telescope equipment for public viewing as well. There is no cost to enter the park for this event.

Here are some area caches; feel free to visit one or all. There are three in Baylor Park itself:

Santa's Hobbies http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ba091ccd-64f0-4819-9c61-2b0b7fb5c44d

Iceberg
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=23c1e715-ce85-4483-9fad-4d33b13ca969

1970's Tupperware Flashback 2.0
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a9f3f185-8699-4143-bdde-7f5ff0a2633a

Orphans of Carver County
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b2723d85-e531-4294-966a-cbb50e65fdc1

Baylor Regional Park
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a9a10550-50e7-4545-b43e-4ab75609e1c2

A Sticky Situation
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3c747172-a881-4dce-a543-166cfed016d5

Map and directions to Baylor may be found here:
http://www.mnastro.org/onan/directions.htm

Hope to see you there. If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to shoot me an e-mail.

sui generis · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:47 am Post subject:

Kitch · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

With an "atomic wedgie" you would be gazing at a different set of stars.....

But I heard there is a bar in River Falls...that serves "atomic wediges" ...you drink it out of a "jock cup"

KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

Bummer deal on the approval.

Seems to me I saw a event posted on gc.com's main page a couple weeks back that was a star gazing sort of event, it got archived because of lack of interest and no one could attend it, but I highly doubt that's the problem here Smile

Event or no event I'll plan on goin anyway.

Buzzygirl · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

Mtn-man sent me a note along with the archive report. He apologized for not approving it and sent along a copy of the "guidelines for posting a cache". Obviously, I don't have any say about which caches or events can be approved or not, but "if it were up to me", I would probably approve any event that had anything to do with geocaching! But... then I try to see it from a moderator/approver's point of view, and I could see how that might get a bit out of hand. So with that in mind, I can understand why geocaching.com has fairly strict guidelines for their event caches.

Anyway, if we get a pretty good attendance at the Baylor event, I will probably do another one next spring, but I will try to make it more of a geocaching focus instead of an astronomy one.

Hope you can all show up. Bring the kids too, they generally have a really good time at the observatory. Smile

Buzzygirl · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:21 pm Post subject:

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Buzzygirl · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

OK, so if we don't have any temporary caches at this event, then how is this event any different than an "Earth Cache" (other than not providing a revenue stream for gc.com).

And if we do plant temporary caches, then how is this event any different than any other geo-event? Night caching is the absolute best.

I just don't get it. You must have gotten mtn-man on one of his crabby days. I'd appeal the decision.

-Rick

Kitch · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:58 am Post subject:

hmmm....maybe "silent bob" should have listed it....

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

sui generis · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:56 am Post subject:

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Kitch · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:30 am Post subject:

Just that you have been able to move mtns in the past....

"heck I recall" he owes me a favor....

King Boreas · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:03 am Post subject:

My permits at Baylor have expired. Carver County Parks (Thanks Lenny !) extended them until the event. They will be removed that night. There is a third cache in the park. It's a beautiful park. Only a few more days to get three quick caches in one area.