DARK SKY // Light Monitoring in Avi Kwa Ame National Monument

LIGHT MONITORING IN AVI KWA AME NATIONAL MONUMENT

Join us on Sunday, February 3rd to help us do light monitoring in Avi Kwa Ame National Monument! Light monitoring is part of the journey to becoming a certified Dark Sky Park, and we’ll be hosting a few light monitoring sessions over the next several months.

At this event, volunteers will be trained to help us observe the night sky to monitor light pollution, as well as help develop ideas about dark sky observation areas and recourses in the monument.

We'll meet at Walking Box Ranch for a brief orientation and to take our first light measurements, then carpool to the Wee Thump road corral parking area for our second site measurements, and finally travel down the Walking Box Ranch road to the corral area, which has potentially some of the darkest sky in the area. At the WBR Road corral, all are welcome to set up telescopes for sky viewing.

Please note other than at our first stop at Walking Box Ranch, there is no available restroom except the great outdoors. The nearest gas and food is in the town of Searchlight. Please gas up and bring plenty of water, warm clothing and snacks. It is consistently considerably colder and windier in this area than in the Vegas valley.