Red Mountain Resort has been a supporter of our Initiative from the start and provides us with meeting rooms and audio visual equipment for our educational events.
Tracey Welsh, the Resort’s General Manager, recently commented about our Initiative, saying, “We’re pretty excited to be a part of this.” Excited enough that she has asked us to analyze their outdoor lighting to find out if it is as “night sky friendly” as they have always intended it to be.
Nathan Dupre, a member of our Technical Committee, has just finished design of a workbook with help from some committee members that will let us do this analysis for the Resort. We have taken a lot of photos, some spectrometer readings, and counted fixtures. The next step is to get some lighting specifications and do the analysis.
We will update this blog post when the analysis is completed.
Let us know if this Initiative is important to you, if you are willing to get involved, and what else you think we should be doing to improve, preserve, and protect the night skies in Ivins. We will get back to you as soon as possible.