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Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/12/04
Posts: 1217
Loc: Romulus, Sector 12
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Between the back door and the tool shed:
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Dirt Cheap Astronomy
Voyager 114X900 Newt EQ2 * Sky Chief 60X700 EQ1 * Cometron 62X300 EQ1
Sears Ultra Wide 7X50 Binos * Vintage 16X50 Binos EQ1
Books, Barlows, Eyepieces, Camera Adaptors & Other Esoteric Junk.
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Tony Flanders
Postmaster
Reged: 05/18/06
Posts: 8212
Loc: Cambridge, MA, USA
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This is the view looking northeast from the top of the hill in Danehy Park, the closest good observing site to my city apartment -- and right across the street from work.
The top image shows the view to the northeast. The galaxy painted on the rubber pad is a happy accident. I once bumped into Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the woman who landscaped the hill and conceived of putting a galaxy there, and she was delighted to know that I've actually spent many hours viewing galaxies from that spot.
The lower image shows the view to the west, the darkest direction. The big lights were installed just a few years ago, and I haven't used the site nearly as much since then, except in winter when the lights are never on.
It's a magical spot, both night and day -- an island of calm amid the bustle of the city, and a favorite for dogwalkers, joggers, lovers, and families with young children.
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Tony Flanders
First and foremost observing love: naked eye.
Second, binoculars.
Last but not least, telescopes.
And I sometimes dabble with cameras.
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AstronomyXtreme
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 08/27/06
Posts: 885
Loc: Maryland
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Here's an animation of my frontyard where I setup.
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-CJ "The 15 year old astrofreak"
14.5" F/6 Truss
10.1" F/4 Odyssy Coulter
127mm 5" F/12.1 Starmax Mak Cassegrain
90mm 3.5" F/11 Celestron Refractor on EQ3/w drives
4.5" DS114 coverted to newtonian
ETX-70
60mm F/11 Sears Refractor
50mm F/12.5 Simmons Refractor
10x60 Konus APO binocs/w built in nebula filters
7x18 Meade Monocular
Fugifilm Funpix A500
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miniventures
Something Else
Reged: 09/13/03
Posts: 11259
Loc: Powell Butte, Central Oregon
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CJ, very cool--and a fkeld with Safe Fence---neat.
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LarryC
Volunteer
http://www.sunrivernaturecenter.org
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boren
super member
Reged: 01/17/07
Posts: 192
Loc: Northern Indiana
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A good site in the winter when the animals are in the barn. Such a long way to go though, about 100 feet from the house. 
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Orion xt10i
Rodenstein Model II 60mm f/11
Hyperion: 17mm, 13mm, 5mm. WO UWAN 28mm. Orion Shorty Plus barlow.
Geek.Farm.Life Podcast
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Dubboy
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/05/05
Posts: 2398
Loc: Western Kentucky
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1982
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Don
"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky and enjoy God's wondrous universe" Thomas Back.
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Dubboy
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/05/05
Posts: 2398
Loc: Western Kentucky
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2006
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Don
"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky and enjoy God's wondrous universe" Thomas Back.
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AstroTay
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 11/10/06
Posts: 958
Loc: Toronto, Canada
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 you gotta be kiddin me. Did your wife approve the hole in the roof... 
If I did that to my roof, this is what would happen 
any leaks?
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Meade 10"LX200R w UHTC "Ocean Liner Anne" + wireless Autostar II 
DSI Pro w CCD Color Filter Set
Celestron NexStar 102 SLT "SteamShip Anne"
Celestron SkyMaster 15X70 Binoculars "Can-U Anne"
*New* Canon EOS Rebel XSi/450D DSLR Camera Now Moded
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Rich N
Post Laureate
Reged: 09/22/04
Posts: 5618
Loc: San Francisco Bay Area, Calif...
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Here is our club's Houge Park in town star party site. The San Jose Astronomical Association has twice monthly in town public star parties. We also have star parties at several darker sites in the hills several miles from San Jose, California.
One of the really nice things about this site, we have permission to turn out the parking lot lights while we are having the star party.
Rich
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Chris Lee
super member
Reged: 01/31/07
Posts: 166
Loc: -26d20'26.40" +28d05'07.40"
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I grew up on a farm in the middle of no where before becoming a "city boy". Right now though, looking at some of the viewing sites here, I'm feeling very home sick 
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Skywatcher 200mm f/5 (SKP2001EQ5)
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desertstars
Reged: 11/05/03
Posts: 41911
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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I grew up on a farm in the middle of no where before becoming a "city boy". Right now though, looking at some of the viewing sites here, I'm feeling very home sick
You and be both. Especially after looking at boren's site in Indiana... 
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Thomas Watson
Author of Mr. Olcott's Skies. Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
@desertstarsbks
Under Desert StarsEither Way, It's Reading
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boren
super member
Reged: 01/17/07
Posts: 192
Loc: Northern Indiana
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Yeah, but look at your CSC! I haven't seen a stretch of blue that dark and that long, ever.
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Orion xt10i
Rodenstein Model II 60mm f/11
Hyperion: 17mm, 13mm, 5mm. WO UWAN 28mm. Orion Shorty Plus barlow.
Geek.Farm.Life Podcast
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Dubboy
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/05/05
Posts: 2398
Loc: Western Kentucky
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you gotta be kiddin me. Did your wife approve the hole in the roof...
If I did that to my roof, this is what would happen
Do it while she's sleeping!  
Actually they are both garage roofs (my domain)
I did cut a hole in one our house roofs (before remodeling and adding a second story) She asked why I was carrying a chainsaw into the attic 
The garage roof had a small leak at first (bad flashing) but since I have corrected it and it's survived more than one downpour and 2 feet of melting snow. 
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Don
"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky and enjoy God's wondrous universe" Thomas Back.
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desertstars
Reged: 11/05/03
Posts: 41911
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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Yeah, but look at your CSC! I haven't seen a stretch of blue that dark and that long, ever.
You guys call it good weather.
We call it a drought.
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Thomas Watson
Author of Mr. Olcott's Skies. Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
@desertstarsbks
Under Desert StarsEither Way, It's Reading
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JoeF
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/18/05
Posts: 1193
Loc: 'Sunny Loftus' - N E England
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Some lovely and very enviable sites here, and also I tip my hat to those of you submerged in urban sprawl.
Heres where I spend 99% of my observing time mainly because the skies aren't too bad and I'm just getting too lazy to cart the scope more than the short distance between the shack and the observing pad!
The dog is a constant feature of my sessions though sadly he can no longer fit under the tripod of this setup as he could with the old Tasco.
He's very handy though, the bulk of my observing is actually laid on my back with binos when I take him a late night walk in those fields.
Joe
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Orion Optics 200mm f6 & Accufocus on GP/E Mount
Opticron BGA 10x50 Binos
NELM 5.2 rural skies
Under tripod canine footwarmer
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Joe Lalumia
Postmaster
Reged: 01/24/07
Posts: 5133
Loc: Quinlan, Texas, USA
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I am to ashamed to post a picture of...................................my driveway!
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LX90 8" LNT, SV 80BV & TelePOD, ETX 125PE, 15x70 binoculars & parallelogram mount
www.texasastro.org www.telescopeman.org www.telescopeman.us
"Ninety percent of this game is half mental." - Yogi Berra
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rick rian
Seeker of Truth(s)
Reged: 08/03/04
Posts: 36060
Loc: Upper Mid West
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I'm with you Joe ... right now I'm suffering from serious "site envy".
Cheers
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Rickster
Scopes: C8, TV85
Mounts: NexStar 8i mount (w/ Ray's Bracket) on HD tripod, Losmandy GM-8, Helix Hercules Single-Arm Alt/Azm Mount w/ Oberwerk wood tripod
EPs: UO, TMB, TV, Baader
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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dtsmith
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/22/06
Posts: 776
Loc: Lafayette, IN
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X marks the spot.
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Dan
NP-101 / DM6 / Sky Commander
CPC 800 XLT / WO SCT Focuser
Stellarvue 9x50 RACI Finder
W.O. 66SD
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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 20063
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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Here's a ground level view of mine from last June -- the goal is to someday build a roll-off roof observatory, tall shrubbery surrounding it, and a larger telescope someday:
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"Truth" is that which confounds our expectations...
Science is a bazaar, not a cathedral
"S.O.E." (Sauron's Other Eye), with 16" Royce conical mirror: A permanent work in progress.
The "Eye of Sauron" Observatory Open for Business!
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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 20063
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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Here's an overhead Google Earth shot of the same site from a year ago, before the house was in place. "X" marks the spot:
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"Truth" is that which confounds our expectations...
Science is a bazaar, not a cathedral
"S.O.E." (Sauron's Other Eye), with 16" Royce conical mirror: A permanent work in progress.
The "Eye of Sauron" Observatory Open for Business!
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