Re: [APML] ideas wanted- probably O.T.

["bert katzung" <katzung1@home.com>]

Hi Colt:
I went through this a couple of years ago...
You're right that real estate agents have no idea what a "dark sky" means.
If they've seen the Big Dipper, they will tell you it's incredibly dark! I'm
not sure that you're right about places being available to rent; my wife and
I found nothing for rent out in "the country" around the SF Bay Area. We
ended up buying. I would certainly advise going out for most of a night to
check any promising leads; it's the only way to be sure about the darkness
of the sky and will give you some information about fog probabilities (at
least one night's sampling!). One source of information that became
available after we bought would have been very useful to us: a member of the
local astro club started a series of articles for the newsletter about
viewing sites in the surrounding counties. You may have something of that
sort available to you already? Even if no-one is writing about it, members
of local clubs may know of places good for viewing or places for sale
suitable for our peculiar hobby.
Hope this helps...
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@home.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colt Bednorz" <colt@airmail.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, 25 February, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: [APML] ideas wanted- probably O.T.


> Group members,
> I need some ideas that may come under real estate tips.
> My problem is this:
> Over the past year or so I've been inactive as some new equipment
> straggled in. During this time I had a perfect dark site for photography
>
> that I wasn't using. The owner has now kicked me out and is
> selling the place. I don't want to buy it.
> Many of you must have gone through this in one way or another.
> A club site or tent accommodations are unfortunately out of the
> question.
> How do you go about finding the impossible?
> A place in the middle of nowhere with no other close houses or
> large cities.
> Usually the areas that are pretty good aren't close to any town,
> and my brief contacts with real estate agents was a waist
> of time. There are places for rent all over the place, but how in the
> world do you find them?
> I'm hopping someone has been through this, and I'd imagine that
> every part of the country is the same as far as the difficulty goes.
> Colt Bednorz
>
>
>
>
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