Hi! Welcome visitors. This site is dedicated to the construction and comissioning of my Father's observatory in small Oak City, Utah.
For those not familiar with this small town, it's in Centeral/Western Utah, population of 650, and nearly hosted the A-Bomb project during WWII. It was the first choice, but was eventually dismissed because they were worried about displacing the farmers and losing the acerage. Personally, I think they were worried about the after math of tight-nit LDS families being displaced. The news would spread like wildfire. Not good for top secret projects!
Oak City is also occasionally plagued by the foul Mormon Cricket. These crickets can infest the town in such numbers that cars have been known to hydroplane due to the sheer number of crickets on the streets.
Since we are still looking for a good name for the observatory, I have decided to name this blog after the scientific name for the Mormon Cricket: Anabrus Simplex. If not for the sole reason that it has a cool ring to it, and anything with an "x" in the title gets taken a bit more seriously.
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