ASTROCACHE 
   
                Dedicated to the inpiring Genius Loci



Multicache overview:
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  Visit four stars, gathering pieces of a starmap:

       http://ads.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bbrowse?book=hsaa&page=52

       (Saved in images/starmap.gif)

  Four stars are:  altair, centauri, ceti, sirius

  Starmap ultimately leads to Sun, the final cache at the "center" of
  the map.

  Somehow "overlay" the 4 stars on Chicago.  Separate parks would be
  perfect.



Goals:
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  * teach astronomical facts!  learn about our starry neighbors!



Useful URLs found so far:
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Chicago Park District's history:

http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/3A5DC0F3-2FEF-44E8-B99B-1487EAC9D1D2.cfm

Zombeck's Handbook of Astronomical Data:

http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/toc.html



Things that make Genius Loci Caches Great
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 * cache is often a "decoy" camoflouged in plain sight.  

       floating duck, fake stump, fake cross, fake knob in gazebo, fake bug

 * often educational/historical

       indian trail trees.  railroad robbery site, famous car crash site 
       
 * puzzle-oriented

      -  multicache:  "count posts around the tree."  (common technique:
         examine physical details of one site to get coords for the
         next)

      -  word-based riddles that allude to a location via local
         landmark.  (fox and bee)

      -  poetry that instructs how to walk around a local area (the
         bug cache)