Zombie Star Party 2009
The 2009 Spring Zombie Star Gaze will be run from Thursday afternoon March 26th through Sunday morning March 29th. This is a three-night event.
The location is Griers Field at the Deerlick Astronomy Village. DAV is located off I-20 one hour west of Augusta. The field has power along the fence. There are also bathrooms and showers. The club has 30 x 18 building. There is a large pavilion located between the DAV field office and the bathrooms. Plus dark skies far from the light pollution of Atlanta metro. You can either tent camp or sleep in your vehicle.
The price is $10 per day or $20 for the entire event. There is no pre-registration. All you have to do is pay on site. The money goes toward improvements to the Giers field site and help with improving the AAC property on site.
This is the best time of the year to observe all 110 Messier objects in the night sky in one night. Or in this case, you can do it over several nights.
For information, contact Dave Lumpkin at
Observing (at) atlantaastronomoy.org
or Keith Burns at