Astronomers On The Square For Festival
(left to right) Maxine Harrison, Director of the Cherry Springs Dark Sky Fund and Association, and astronomers Pam Karhan and Stash Nawrocki, with the Dark Sky tree they decorated for the upcoming Coudersport Festival of Lights.
The decorated tree is one of many to be found surrounding the Potter County Courthouse in downtown Coudersport.
To further their message on preserving the night sky through the use of wise lighting practices, two of the spotlights used to illuminate the large maple trees on the court house square, will be using "PAR" shields which narrow spotlight beams to focus on what they are intended to illuminate, and all of the spotlights will be turned off at a given time each night when traffic in town will be minimal.
19 comments:
Just another load of B.S.
Maxine,
Thank you for all your efforts at Cherry Springs in helping make our beautiful County better.
This comment "Just another load of B.S." Is from a true loser.
thank you for all of your efforts for us and keeping our county
beautiful and special. Fortunately the good guys are winning. Truth and beauty will prevail.
God bless.
My back yard's almost as dark as cherry springs and I live in Coudersport borough! Did it make sense to run out Potter County's only airport for this? Just more from the "global warming", "go green", "no drilling", "no windmills", "no jobs" crowd.
As Coudersport loses business after business, houses are standing empty, Potter County loses tourism and hunters, I would think the skies are dark enough without promoting darkness.
If my hobbie was astronomy,and I had been given millions of tax dollars to support my non- eccential playtime.I think I would keep my head down and enjoy it instead of promoting ways to make everyone else reflect on how "light" their wallets are.If anything is a prime candidate for the axe in a budget cutting economy, this has got to be in the top ten.Attracting attention to yourselves may not bode well.
Don't worry, us folks up here in the Northern Tier are headed back towards the Dark Ages.
Thank you Maxine.
Ignore the losers, naysayers, negative comments and people without specific real solutions. I have.
They are only a handful of people .
It will become alot darker in Potter County before we see any light.....
Carefull what you wish for!
They should definitely yank the budget rug out from under this fund. They have already gotten millions of dollars. Just remember this....if you are always walking around looking at the stars, you will eventually trip over what is right in front of you.
Good point Mr. Negative!
I say take the "star gazer" money and put it back in the budget for Potter County to pay our DA's salary!
Better yet put in into a program to bring more wind turbine companies to Potter County...atleast they will produce clean green energy!
If someone would check, I am sure that The Potter County Educaton Council has the hand in this, more money for the select few
We will have dark skies with or without Rendells money. Kind of nice how he can give so much money to Cherry Springs and take away from PCVA. The dark skies crowd is bringing nothing into the county unless you have a gas station and they probably use Sheetz or maybe a hotel, unless they sleep outside. And maybe a few resteraunts. The rest of you tax payers in Potter County, just suck it up. The Ed Council will take care of us somehow I am certain. I still wonder who we elected to run this county?
Ed Council
Check the name of one of those in the photo.
This is a definition from answers.com.
Stargazer:
1) a.Informal. An astronomer.
b. An astrologer.
2) A daydreamer.
3) Any of various bottom-dwelling marine percoid fishes of the families Uranoscopidae and Dactyloscopidae, having eyes on the top of the head.
For those of you who do not know:
The DARK SKY FUND is a PRIVATE fund, it has nothing to do with tax money etc. No one's tax money goes into it only private contributors....
That may be true, but the MILLIONS that were spent to refurbish Cherry Springs for the Dark Skies was funded by the state.
"the MILLIONS that were spent to refurbish Cherry Springs for the Dark Skies was funded by the state."
And that statement is a FACT~!
The private fund deal came later, much later...after millions of all PA tax payers money was spent on your 'lil hobby!
Sorry DA Fink, they ran out of our tax money to pay you your annual salary...request a refund from the "Star Gazers", and good luck with that one!
It's nice that they can spend millions on the state parks and turf for the sports fields and there is never enough money in the budget for PENNDOT to take care of the roads during the winter.
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