18-21 June 2017
Julie and I attended an astronomy class at the UVU field station at Capitol Reef. Great food, super cool surroundings, and amazing dark skies. 🙂
This place is totally off the grid. Solar for all their electricity, cool building design using the buoyancy of hot air to facilitate heating and cooling, their own water treatment plant. They measure water usage and trash of each group that comes through. 
I finally figured out how to use my telescope. These not-so-impressive photos don’t adequately show how neat it was to see Venus in phase and the sun with clouds moving past it using my new solar filter. 
It was so great to be there with my sister. I’m so proud of how well she withstood the rigors of the class given her current medical issues. She did take breaks on the couch. The best ones were with liquid nitrogen ice cream. 🙂
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