Although the skies turned suddenly dark, windy and showery on Saturday night, the campfire hot dogs and conversations were fine. These events have become one of the club's most anticipated traditions with the enormous pot luck dinners, the good seeing and the occasional bug or two to keep the conversations lively. All OAS members are encouraged to consider joining the usual bunch of renegades at these memorable high altitude events. Keep you eye on The Star Diagonal for next year's scheduled adventures. The next planned public star party at Antelope Island Star Park is set for Saturday September 11.
Protocol is pretty much as before.
Members are admitted to the island free. Equipment set up is before dusk and if the skies are clear the seeing is always quite good. This will be a dark sky event, being just two days past New Moon. The usual slide show tour of the universe is planned. After this month, only one more Antelope Island star party is scheduled, that being on October 9, 1999.