Grand Canyon star Party

profdant139 wrote:
Naio, I don't know if the previous years' images are available on the phone version of Google Earth. They are certainly on the full-size version, for laptops and desktops. But here is an embarrassing confession -- I don't really know how to use my cellphone. I can make calls, but that is about it. (I grew up in the days of rotary dial landlines, hard-wired to the wall. I can't get my rapidly-aging head around the notion that this little wafer in my pocket is really a computer.)

Wow someone in my peer group

remember party lines,after the Korean war our neighbor didn't have a phone and when her son would call us Mom would send me to get her so she wouldn't miss her sons call
When we visited the grandparents,Dad would call person to person to himself. so they would know we got home safe

And I can remember very thrifty relatives who would make up codes and then call person to person with the code word -- for example, my uncle would take the bus from LA to Fresno and then call us, person to person, for Lassie Gray (Greyhound!) to tell us to come pick him up.

This has nothing to do with star parties, except (ha!) the skies were a lot darker back then in California's central valley.

profdant139 wrote:
I don't really know how to use my cellphone. I can make calls, but that is about it.

you may have better luck with a smartphone, as that's just a pocket computer, and we know you can use a computer!

That way you can almost eliminate having to make business phone calls, which are usually being put on hold and listening to horrible music.