It’s nice that someone was able to get to a star party. Right now I should be at this one. https://www.mksp.ca/ It’s right in the middle of extreme fire risk. Can’t really have a bunch of people at the top of a mountain with a single 20km long bad road as the only escape route. A few years back they had to evacuate the party as a fire worked its way up the mountain.

Then today I see the one I was to go to in Sept was also cancelled. Even weirder reason for this one going down. https://www.merrittastronomical.com/ I hope they manage to get the site back as it’s very dark and very accessible.

Luckily the weather here on the west coast has been good with no smoke so I’ve been able to go to my reasonably dark (SQM 21.3) location down the road. Today smoke has arrived as there’s a fire on the island.

Bill