Where Is AFY?
Astronomy For Youth meets at
the
Malabar Farm
Horseman's Area (4050 Bromfield Road, Lucas, Ohio). When you arrive
at Malabar Farm off of Pleasent Valley Road, the Horseman's
Area is past the big farm house and up the big hill. Just as the hill
levels off, a road to the left leads up to a large parking lot on top of one of
the highest hills in Pleasant Valley.
Click Here for a Yahoo map to Malabar Farm.
Click Here for additional maps we have collected over time.
The Malabar Farm Horseman's Area is at:
40.6412° North by 82.3993° West
I got these coordinates from a U.S. Geological Survey map and
are for the middle of the Horsemans Area parking lot.
Why Supply the Exact Coordinates?
When looking on the Internet or in astronomy software for maps
or current events, you will almost always have to supply your observing location.
There are a great many web sites that will provide you with an entire almanac of
up-to-the-minute astronomical events -- if you can tell them where you are
observing from. My favorite is
Heavens Above.
If your software or web site does not allow you to select
north-south, east-west, it probably is just looking for one of the other common
ways of representing these coordinates. Try this:
