Most gold prospecting trips will take you to fairly undeveloped areas. Take the opportunity to explore the darkened sky. Take along a book about the constellations, so you can find them. Use a pair of binoculars to look at the moon. If you want, you can buy an inexpensive telescope to look at the planets and the surface of the moon.
Just because it is dark, do not think that your prospecting adventure is on hold until the morning. Look up. You may find more treasure than you can imagine.
http://www.tucsonastronomy.org/
http://www.edu-observatory.org/eo/astronomy_clubs.html
http://www.iolaks.com/softech/astro/astro.htm
http://www.folksonline.com/folks/hh/tours/astro.htm
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