{"id":465,"date":"2013-04-16T07:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/?p=465"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:43:05","slug":"stone-mountain-campers-obs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/stone-mountain-campers-obs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Mountain Campers Observing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">The FAS<\/span> Stone Mountain State Park public observation<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">s<\/span> will be held on these dates in 2013<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">. Mark your calendars!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">Saturday, April 20th \u00a0[sunset 8:00pm]<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">\u2013&gt; this Saturday!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">Saturday, June 15th \u00a0\u00a0[sunset <span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">8:40<\/span>pm]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">Saturday, Aug 17th\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[sunset 8:09pm]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">Saturday, Oct 12th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0[sunset 6:49pm]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">State Park address: 3042 Frank Parkway, Roaring Gap, NC 28668<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncparks.gov\/Visit\/parks\/stmo\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stone Mountain State Park<\/a><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncparks.gov\/Visit\/parks\/stmo\/pics\/campground.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park Campground Map<\/a>\u00a0 [observing field below site 33 in the A Loop at the top]<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncparks.gov\/Visit\/parks\/stmo\/events.php\">Search events at Stone Mountain for &#8216;Astronomy<\/a><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">&#8216;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=36.346521&amp;lon=-81.03257959999996&amp;site=all&amp;smap=1&amp;searchresult=Traphill%2C%20NC%2028685%2C%20USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traphill Weather <\/a><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">\u00a0(nearest community to the State Park)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FAS members Chip and Vivian Bast host this event for the Stone Mountain campers. The FAS events are well supported by the park ranger and the dark skies are enjoyed by campers of all ages. There is often a good turnout at these star gazing events, so please bring your scopes! The moon will be in 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter and visible for all events as well.<\/p>\n<p>The webmasters will try to keep the web site updated, but sometimes<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>there is no connection or phone signals at Stone Mountain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Park office\u00a0 (8:00am-5:00pm) \u2013336<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">&#8211;<\/span>957-8185\u00a0 Call before 5:00pm to check for cancelation because of weather.<\/li>\n<li>Vivian or Chip<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">:<\/span>\u00a0 contact at <a href=\"mailto:fas@fas37.org\">fas@fas37.org<\/a> or on the club Face book site.<\/li>\n<li>Observations at Stone Mountain are for campers only, but any FAS club members who don&#8217;t want to camp but just come to help and set up scopes will be let out of the gate to return home when the observation is over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Telescopes are set up in the open field behind campsite #33. (Chip and Viv will be camping at site #33 ) There are some really great views! Times are sunset to about 11:00pm, but are often done by 10:00pm because of dew and the campers often come early. Travel time to the State Park is just over 1 hour from Winston-Salem via US-421 N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAS Stone Mountain State Park public observations will be held on these dates in 2013. Mark your calendars! Saturday, April 20th \u00a0[sunset 8:00pm] \u2013&gt; this Saturday! Saturday, June 15th \u00a0\u00a0[sunset 8:40pm] Saturday, Aug 17th\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[sunset 8:09pm] Saturday, Oct 12th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0[sunset 6:49pm] State Park address: 3042 Frank Parkway, Roaring Gap, NC 28668 Stone Mountain State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","category-stonemountain","tag-stone-mountain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2VHcz-7v","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fas37.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}