Team SK Lunar Week

The lunar week is 7 nights long with the full moon occurring on the 6th night.

• Provides a full moon weekend every month.
• The full moon is not on night 4 because then nights 6 and 7 have a moon that rises too late and is too low for maximum enjoyment.
• Night 1 has a bright moon that is high in the sky.
• Night 7's moon is a tad late but gives a dramatic moon rise and is of course nearly full.
• Determine the full moon night by adjusting universal time (commonly used to report moon phases) to local time.  Full moon night is the night between local noon times when the full moon occurs.
• Since the maximum moon viewing is usually before midnight (if moon rise is at 8 pm and you go to bed at 2 am then 2/3rds of your viewing time was before midnight) higher precision may be achieved by adjustng the terminator times some hours ahead.  e.g. instead of noon to noon perhaps 11am to 11am
  

Granite Season

July 15th through October 31st. The first and last two weeks may be marginal due to mosquitoes / boomers or precipitation, respectively.


Some general thoughts on monthly destinations:

Month:	Destination:
January	Sonoran Desert; Yosemite Valley
February	Yosemite Valley
March	Mojave Desert ; Wild Flower Grasslands
April	Mojave Desert ; Wild Flower Grasslands
May	Wild Card
June	Canyons & Creeks - Arroyo Seco
July	River Canyons ; Cool Redwood Forests ; High Desert  > 7500'  e.g. Telescope Peak in Death Valley
August	Granite!
September	Granite! ; Coast
October	Granite! ; Coast
November	Nevada ; Yosemite Valley
December	Deep Desert ; Yosemite Valley