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Show The Salt Area Recreation Roundup Running Newt The SalLoke CITv Track Club't tei let is scheduled to begin Saturday at noon at the Oqulrrh Hills Middle School, 17V49 S- 2700 West In Riverton. The events feature a series ot tour races where the combined mileages add up to 50 or 25 miles. series participants will run five miles series runners will Saturday while go 2'; miles Entry tee Is 54 For information, crt call Richard Barnum-Reec- e Races scheduled Jan. 25 include the Color in St. George (call Country for information) and the first annual Foiklltt Frostbite 5K crt Snowbird (call Jon ext 4100) Farmer at lake Tribune, Thursday, January 16, 1986 Cll the commercial hunting oreo proclamation Public comment will be accepted. For infor man n, call Big Game Boord Meeting The Utah Bourd of Big Grime Control will numbers tor desert bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain goat and bison hunts next Thursday at 7.30 p m. In the Division of Wildlife Resources' office In Salt Loke City The application period for the hunts will be in Februory For information, contact Bruce Andersen at set permit Audubon Society Meeting Dick Carter ot the Utah Wildei ness Assuo esent a progi um called "Defende ing the Desert" T uesduy at 8 p m. at the Garden Center as the maior poii of the Utah Audubon Society's monthly meet Ing The event is free ond open to the public For Information, call Joelle Buffo at 484-- 156 crtion will pi Nordic Ski Races The Blue CrossBlue Shield of Utah Wasatch Citnen Series Cross Country ski race is scheduled Saturday gt 10 a.m. ot the Jeremy Ranch Golf Course. Register roce day starting at 8 30 o m. Entry fee Is 55 ond there ore prizes for all classes. For Information, call Fly Tying Swop Meet The Stonetly Society ot the Wasatch fly fishing club will host a fly tying swap meet Friday ot 7.30 p m. at the Chuck-A-Romat the Fashion Place Mall. Fly tiers con trade and swap materials and get some tips from locol fly tiers Micky Anderson, Dave McCormick, Mike Howard ond Bob Johnson. The event Is open to the public. Men s Basketball League e Registration for a men s basketball league scheduled to begin Feb. 4 at the Northwest e Center Is now being held. The cost is 550 per team. For information, contact Jett Bogoaid at Alpine Ski Races Nordic Volley will host a Coca Colo Cup race Saturday at 9.30 a.m. Registration begins ot 7:30 a.m. For information, contact Alon Seko at 575-571. Snowbird will host the next Coca-Col- a Cup event on Jan. 25. Brighton will host an Equitable Fomily Ski Challenge Saturday at 2 p.m. while Pork-Wewill host similior events at 1 p.m. on Sunday and Jan. 26. Powder Mountain will host the event on Jon. 25 ond 26 at 1 p.m. Snowbird will host the Omega Watch ski roce On Sunday. For information, call Beaver Mountain will host a Pepsi Challenge Dual Slalom Roce at 10 a.m. on for Information) Jan. 25 (coll Searching for Halleys Comet Frustrates Amateur Astronomers Snowbird Wmterfest Snowbird's Wlnterfest Activities will be held Sunday through Jon. 26 crt the Little Cottonwood Conyon resort. Events include broom ball games, a snow sculpture contest, a torchlight parade, Swiss skiing demonstrations and plaza entertainers. For schedule information, call Frankly, looking at the stars has always seemed like a strange thing to do. Perhaps that feeling has something to do with the fact that most folks Snowmobile Troil Ride The Salt Lake Valley Snowmobile Club has a trail ride event open to the public scheduled Salurday at Wolf Creek. For Informa2 tion, contact Russell Eliason at have trouble distinquishing between the North Star and the Texaco Star. The extent of their knowledge of the galaxies starts and ends with being able to identify the Big and Little Dippers After that, Aquarius is just the name of a popular song, the Milky Way a candy bar, and the Southern Cross something used by the Ku Klux Wasatch Front Lecture Series Dr. Walter Arabasz, a research professor of geology and geophysics ul the University of Utah, will present a lecture called "Earthquakes: Prospects and Perspetives" Monday at 7.30 p.m. at Highland High School as part of the Utah Museum of Natural History's Wasatch Front Lecture Series. Cost is 53. For Information, call Klan Astronomers, often confused with astrologers, are part of this image problem. Everyone knows what happened to Galileo when he first discovered the earth wasnt the center of the solar system. With the telescopes your kid can purchase with his allowance much more powerful than the one Galileo used, the potential for trouble is great. Why a kid with a good telescope can probably tell you where every uncurtained window is in the neighborhood. It takes something really interesting to get the unknowing masses excited about looking into the stars. Save Our Canyons Meeting John Hoagland of the U.S. Forest Service will talk on "How Does the Wosatch-Coch- e Land ond Resource Management Plan Help Save Our Canyons" Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ot the Zion Lutheran Church at 1070 Foothill Drive at o meeting of Save Our Canyons. Sierra Club Tour The Ogden Group of the Utah Sierra Club has a ski tour on Trapper's Loop scheduled Sunday. Meet at the Trappers Inn of 9 a.m. is required for with lunch. car arrangements. For information, contact Alan Stockland at Wildlife Board Meeting The Utah Wildlife Boord will meet at 8.30 a m. Jan. 24 at the Division of Wildlife Resources' office in Salt Lake City to address And, the 'superstar' of the solar system has always been Halley's Comet. Millions of school children have heard about this piece of ice and rock and its journey through the solar system. And. they've looked forward to 1986 as the year theyd finally get their chance to see this legendary comet Tom Wharton Outdoors Editor After a buildup almost as large as that preceding a Rolling Stones concert, folks came to expect a lot from Halley's. Somehow, many of the uninformed thought the comet would flash across the evening sky in some sort of celestial light show, complete with with a flaming tail and all sorts of dazzling colors. Our first attempt came at the Squaw Flat Campground in Canyon-land- s National Park in late November. Armed with a $25 pair of binocu- lars and the knowledge that the comet was supposed to be somewhere near the southern horizon, we spent a fruitless evening searching for the comet. We did discover that Jupiter looks amazingly like the light above the rangers residence, but thats a different story. No one told us that, in reality, Halleys would be a small light in the sky, somewhere near Jupiter, and that we'd actually have to work to see it. To an amateur star gazer, whose only previous experience at looking at the stars came with an uncooperative high school date on a remote hillside a few years ago, just finding that tiny light was no easy task. I know. We've been trying to find Halley's Comet since November. The next night, we tried again at Arches National Park. It was a spectacular evening and we w ere actually able to identify a few constellations but had no luck at all finding Halleys It was time to take desperate measures. After all, a person's life coulun't possibly complete without getting a glimpse of Halley's comet Time was running out. A friend, Mark Knudsen, confessed at work that he harbored the same desire to see the comet as I did and that his son received a powerful telescope for Christmas. Wednesday, after a few phone calls to the Hansen Planetarium asking for advice, we discovered we'd have to find Jupiter to find Halley's Comet "Its the brightest thing in the western sky, the lady at the planetarium told us. "You can't miss it. We did see some nice airplane lights, the top of a radio transmitter and the crest of a service station sign (which we mistakenly identified as The Tree of Utah sculpture). We didn't see Jupiter. Desperate, we finally found that the University of Utah physics department, an astronomy club and the planetarium were sponsoring a star party Friday night where the East Canyon Road has been closed for the winter. The comet would be visible five degrees to the upper right of Jupiter until about 7.30 p.m. Several hundred, other amateur astronomers also ap--T peared on the scene and proceded to trade rumors about where the comet might be found until the experts showed up. Because we had a tele;, scope, everyone started asking ques; tions like we were experts. We had to confess that we had just mistaken truck's headlights for the planet. Finally, the astronomers shewed up and. in just a few seconds, trained their powerful telescope on Halleys Comet. People waited patiently in line for a quick glance at the furzy. . ball of light that was identified as the comet. After discovering what we were supposed to look at we, too, found thp with our own telescope. We had to admit that the expert-- 1 ence was wonderful. It only served to arouse our curiousity about the solar system. Perhaps, just perhaps, there is something worthwhile and beautiful to see in the evening sky. Like thousands before us, we've de- cided to purchase our own telescope. 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