Upcoming event: Tucson Astronomy Festival

For those in the Tucson area, I just wanted to call attention to this upcoming event: the Tucson Astronomy Festival, taking place March 22 at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. Associate Editor Michael Bakich wrote a short article with all the information you need:

Get ready to attend the Tucson Astronomy Festival

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What is the Bortle scale of the sky down that way now days ?

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Using this map, it looks like right at the park itself the sky is about a 5. Of course, if you move just a little farther from downtown, things improve dramatically!

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How about the Festival?. A good night?

Regards

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The Tuscon Amateur Astronomy Association has two observing sites. A highly developed observing site in SE Arizona in a very dark Bortle 1.2 zone, and a more local observing sit shared with a model airplane club NE of Tuscon in a Bortle 4 (green) zone. As for the city itself, of course it is in a Bortle 10 urban zone.

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Excellent ! And with the arid climate , transparency is usually great too .

I would get lost in a Bortle 1.5 sky lol

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Milky Way from horizon to horizon .

I’m in Bortle 5 here :disappointed:

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