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Check Your Email for Date & Time of This Event!
ACA Members: emails should be in your in-box by Wednesday 11/9/2016
by 5:00 PM indicating date & time |
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Status updated on Friday 11/18/2016 at 9:30 PM |
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This event has been
CANCELLED
due to unfortunate weather conditions |
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ACA Club Members Only
Observing Event
at
Salt Fork State Park
Let's hope for clear skies at one of Ohio's Dark Sky Sites
for a rare "Members-Only" observing night.
Driving directions and
embedded Google Map are below... |
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Directions
to Salt Fork State Park,
14755 Cadiz Road, Lore City, OH 43755 |
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1) Take I-77 South
to Exit 47
(near Cambridge, OH)
for US-22 toward Cambridge/Cadiz |
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2)
Turn LEFT onto US-22
E/Cadiz Rd and continue for 6.5 miles |
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3)
Turn LEFT onto R-1 (park road)
into Salt Fork State Park |
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Directions
to Observing Location within Salt Fork State Park |
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1)
Pull into park from
Cadiz
Rd |
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2)
Follow curved R-1 park road for 2.3
miles and turn LEFT onto R-2 park road |
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3)
Continue on R-2 for 0.2 miles
and turn LEFT into parking lot. You're there! |
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To get
to Restrooms from the observing parking lot: |
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1) Go back through the
parking lot and turn RIGHT on the R-2 park road |
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2) Proceed for 0.2 miles and turn RIGHT onto
the R-1 park road |
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3) Proceed 1.7 miles and turn LEFT onto R-16 park road
Restrooms are in the building in front of you. |
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Latitude |
Longitude |
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Park Entrance: |
40.082287
40° 4' 56" |
-81.459769
-81° 27' 35" |
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Google Map |
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Observing Site: |
40.090485
40° 5' 26" |
-81.492446
-81° 29' 33" |
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Goggle Map |
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Restrooms: |
40.089604
40° 5' 23" |
-81.467869
-81° 28' 4" |
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Google Map |
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Be
sure to hit the REFRESH / RELOAD button on your browser
(or the <F5> key on your keyboard) for up-to-date information |
Live Active Google Map:
Click
here
or on the map below to see a larger, more detailed map showing LATITUDE and
LONGITUDE data...
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Latitude |
Longitude |
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Park Entrance: |
40.082287
40° 4' 56" |
-81.459769
-81° 27' 35" |
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Google Map |
| Observing
Site: |
40.090485
40° 5' 26" |
-81.492446
-81° 29' 33" |
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Goggle Map |
| Restrooms: |
40.089604
40° 5' 23" |
-81.467869
-81° 28' 4" |
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Google Map |
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Solar System objects rise/transit/set times from
Salt Fork State Park on the date of this event... |
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Live AccuWeather Satellite Mosaic |
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Jet Stream (updates
automatically to latest available image)
The Jet Stream affects astronomical "seeing" (steadiness of the air)
If
we're in a gray area, seeing will not be as good as in a white area.
If
we're in a white area, the shorter the arrows, the better.
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