Kentucky Area Paranormal Society

[Phantom]

These are provided for your use to determine the best conditions for investigations:

Moon Phase Calculator http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phase ... php?tcv=31

Moon Phase Calendar http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/

Solar X-Ray and Geomagnetic Fields http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

Sun and Moon Data http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

[Morgaine]

Best conditions? Do you find it necessary to plan your investigations around astronomical influences?

[Phantom]

Best conditions? Do you find it necessary to plan your investigations around astronomical influences?

This information mostly gives a background to what evidence is gathered. If there is quite a bit of EMF activity caused by environmental sources, then it's good to know should there be a lot of high readings at a particular location. Again, it's merely to help with baseline readings.

[GrimReaper]

Best conditions? Do you find it necessary to plan your investigations around astronomical influences?

This information mostly gives a background to what evidence is gathered. If there is quite a bit of EMF activity caused by environmental sources, then it's good to know should there be a lot of high readings at a particular location. Again, it's merely to help with baseline readings.

We also use it to see if there is a "pattern" of the evidence we gather.

[TheresaHPIR]

Best conditions? Do you find it necessary to plan your investigations around astronomical influences?

Personally, myself or HPIR really have never considered it a top priority to plan an investigation around such events. Rather, our investigations are planned around more pressing issues. The biggest being...convenience. We at HPIR all have day jobs, and so do our clients...therefore we have to schedule investigations generally in the evening or at night...many time on weekends...in order to just be able to GET IN THERE, lol. Also, we investigate many businesses, all of which only want investigations afterhours.

Other factors we take into consideration are times of the day or year when activity is reported by the client to be at its highest. One of our on-going investigations is at a dental office where activity is highest in early spring/early fall. We also take into account urgency. If the client is needing assistance right away, we aren't going to wait until the next full moon or solar flare before we schedule an investigation.

Anyway, we record all this information, but to date, we really haven't been able to see any correlation to increased activity. In order for us to even ATTEMPT to find a correlation, we'd have to investigate the same property over and over again, with the exact same people in the exact same mindset with as few variables as humanly possible...a feat that really isn't feasible at this point, lol. We do bill ourselves as a research group as well as investigatory...but right now we're so backed up with client requests that we can't even begin to think about setting up any long (and I do mean LOOONG) term experiments right now, lol.