THEPLOUGH
Nailed Again
Reged: 01/11/08
Posts: 3507
Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND
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Don't know if this will work, but I read a lot about dark sites on here and thought maybe we could post a photograph of your favourite viewing place.... I will start. This is a place called Caldbeck moor, and as you can see their are views for miles around....
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Geoff...
Nexstar 8SE -- 9X50 RACI Finder scope... 6.3 F/R.-- 13 & 17mm Hyperion EPs.. 25mm Celestron E- Lux EP.. 2X Celestron X-Cel Barlow-- + A few bits and pieces..
Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice..
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THEPLOUGH
Nailed Again
Reged: 01/11/08
Posts: 3507
Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND
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one more from the other direction...
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Geoff...
Nexstar 8SE -- 9X50 RACI Finder scope... 6.3 F/R.-- 13 & 17mm Hyperion EPs.. 25mm Celestron E- Lux EP.. 2X Celestron X-Cel Barlow-- + A few bits and pieces..
Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice..
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john D
All you have to do is ask!!
Reged: 08/05/07
Posts: 4241
Loc: Midlothian, VA
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wow thats beautiful Geoff! wish i had something like that! 
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Meade ETX-125EC (SEPT.7)
Meade LXD55
Orion 90mm mak-Cass (4SALE look in S&S)
Celestron NS GOTO mount (4SALE look in S&S)
Philips SPC900NC webcam
MY BLOG
 -Midlothian VA
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1594
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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Here's my favorite. It's a Bortle scale 1 site and you have to go down a washboardy, rough 60 mile road to get there. Once there you are rewarded with a Desert oasis consisting of warm springs and Palm trees. Nights are fabulous and the skies so dark you can walk around without a flashlight, just by starshine alone.
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Vixen ED80sf on a Vixen Portamount
Zhumell 12" The "Beast"
Some premium EPs
A wonderful, understanding Wife, 2 Dogs, lots of backyard Birdies, mag. 6+ skies to the S.E. on a good night.
Strange Universe, may I kiss your breeze,
Your beautiful statement - reaches,
as my wallet empties.
Carson City, Nv.
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1594
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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Here's my 2nd favorite and most commonly used site
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Vixen ED80sf on a Vixen Portamount
Zhumell 12" The "Beast"
Some premium EPs
A wonderful, understanding Wife, 2 Dogs, lots of backyard Birdies, mag. 6+ skies to the S.E. on a good night.
Strange Universe, may I kiss your breeze,
Your beautiful statement - reaches,
as my wallet empties.
Carson City, Nv.
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 25796
Loc: montana
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Here's mine; I have an Observatory with my new AT16" dob for viewing.
My skies average mid to high 21's on SQM instrument.
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Carol
AstroTech 16" Dob (Thanks ASTRONOMICS!)
AstroTech 66ED / Vixen 80MF/AstroTech Voyager
Masuyama's 7.5, 15, 25W, 35mm,
Tak LE 5mm
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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THEPLOUGH
Nailed Again
Reged: 01/11/08
Posts: 3507
Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND
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WOW, Randy they both look good.. John all I need now are some clear nights..... 
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Geoff...
Nexstar 8SE -- 9X50 RACI Finder scope... 6.3 F/R.-- 13 & 17mm Hyperion EPs.. 25mm Celestron E- Lux EP.. 2X Celestron X-Cel Barlow-- + A few bits and pieces..
Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice..
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PWPanther
super member
Reged: 06/07/07
Posts: 109
Loc: Lombard, Ill
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I am jealous!! Here in llinois all you have to do is picture a farm in every direction you look. If you are away from the city lights you are in farm land.
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Bill F
Lombard.Ill
XT10
PST
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jhors
Riddle me this
Reged: 07/16/07
Posts: 720
Loc: Tempe, AZ
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Great spots!!
Here's my usual spot (50 minutes drive):
Here's my 3-4x a year bortle 2 site (4 hour drive):
And here's the site of the All-Arizona Star Party- Come and join us!:
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-Josh
Florence Junction:
Antenna:
Orion XT10, 10 x 50 Binos
Observing: Messiers, SAC's 110 Best of the NGC, AL Double Star Club
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars -Walt Whitman
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 770
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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Nice topic and some nice photos. Today here is crumby cloudy with miserable California smoke laying in the valley. Maybe next nice day if this thread is still going I'll snap off a few vistas.
My night skies are what my CSC light pollution map would indicate. Starlight shows me the way around the place at night.
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WRS Observatory
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THEPLOUGH
Nailed Again
Reged: 01/11/08
Posts: 3507
Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND
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Their are some nice photos here. Carol you built you obs. in the right place. Those views are magnificent, and right on your door step too.....
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Geoff...
Nexstar 8SE -- 9X50 RACI Finder scope... 6.3 F/R.-- 13 & 17mm Hyperion EPs.. 25mm Celestron E- Lux EP.. 2X Celestron X-Cel Barlow-- + A few bits and pieces..
Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice..
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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 9655
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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Here's my normal viewing site, and this is where my observatory will be built. There's a little Las Vegas Sky glow visible about 80 miles to the southeast, and a few annoying yard lights about 1/3 to 1/2 mile away, but it's still almost pristine overhead: I can get to Mag. 15.3 with my 10" on a good night.
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Homebuilt 10" dob, old Coulter mirror.
16" Royce conical mirror: Construction on S.O.E. (Sauron's Other Eye) has officially begun!
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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 9655
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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I've only viewed from this spot once, but I'd love to do it again. It's the Grand Canyon from Crazy Jug Point, at about 7200 feet in elevation, with skies as dark as all get-out.
It's also at the end of a long dirt road, so Randy might want to head this way first chance he gets! 
It ain't bad during the day, either. 
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Homebuilt 10" dob, old Coulter mirror.
16" Royce conical mirror: Construction on S.O.E. (Sauron's Other Eye) has officially begun!
Edited by llanitedave (07/06/08 04:36 PM)
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1594
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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That's beautiful Dave. Ever been to Toroweap on the north rim but on the west end of the park?
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Vixen ED80sf on a Vixen Portamount
Zhumell 12" The "Beast"
Some premium EPs
A wonderful, understanding Wife, 2 Dogs, lots of backyard Birdies, mag. 6+ skies to the S.E. on a good night.
Strange Universe, may I kiss your breeze,
Your beautiful statement - reaches,
as my wallet empties.
Carson City, Nv.
Edited by Randy Spiker (07/06/08 05:32 PM)
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David Pavlich
Postmaster
Reged: 05/18/05
Posts: 6130
Loc: Mandeville, LA USA 30.38 X 90....
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I think the moderators need to lock this thread to keep we suburbanites from wreching in jealousy. 
David
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A few scopes and mounts.
Proud Member; PAS NOLA,
Life expectancies would go WAY up if green vegetables smelled like bacon...
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d1anderson
super member
Reged: 10/11/07
Posts: 173
Loc: North Central Texas
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I think it should be a sticky....
I can make a list from the of places I want to observe from.
I also want to add a couple of my own. I want to take pictures first.
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Dewayne
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Z12 dob
MEADE DS2130AT NEWT 494goto
MEADE NG60 REFRACTOR
A Bunch of supplied Eye Pieces
The more you look the more you'll see! 
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pops
sage
Reged: 12/22/07
Posts: 310
Loc: Cadiz, Kentucky
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Ok! Ok! That's enough already! Do you know how many of us have to go behind the shed in town just to get a glimpse of the moon? These photos could be deemed "cruel and inhuman" to those of us whose best spots are in light polluted cities and towns. 
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Golden Pond Kentucky
10" Zhumell
Sky Commander
Celestron 114EQ
Telrad
Stratus 21mm
Stratus 13mm
Stratus 5mm
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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mlcolbert
sage
Reged: 11/15/07
Posts: 332
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so how about a thread about our not so dark, suburban, light polluted site?:))
michael
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zeiss
APQ 130/3x500 mm Telephotos/2xMC80/MC35/5x7 back/lunar and planetary camera
Hasselblad
503cw/500el/m
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 1866
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Sorry, but I can't resist:
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Preston Smith, Eureka, Pa
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
Stellarvue SV115 on order
Stellarvue NHII, SV66, F50 "Sparrow Hawk 1"
1960s Unitron 160 102mm f15
1950s Unitron 114 60mm f15
1980 Edmund "Voyager" 60mm f8
1960s Tasco 15TE 76mm f15
1960s Tasco 7TE-5 60m f16
1955 Astro Optical 50mm f10
More refractors!
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d1anderson
super member
Reged: 10/11/07
Posts: 173
Loc: North Central Texas
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Quote:
Sorry, but I can't resist:
 
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Dewayne
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Z12 dob
MEADE DS2130AT NEWT 494goto
MEADE NG60 REFRACTOR
A Bunch of supplied Eye Pieces
The more you look the more you'll see!
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 1866
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Well, I'll try to be more serious....
Here is my 4" Unitron with the wieghted clock drive, tracking Saturn. This is in a cornfield across the street from my house in Eureka, Pa. This is a timed exposure with light being provided by the moon.
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Preston Smith, Eureka, Pa
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
Stellarvue SV115 on order
Stellarvue NHII, SV66, F50 "Sparrow Hawk 1"
1960s Unitron 160 102mm f15
1950s Unitron 114 60mm f15
1980 Edmund "Voyager" 60mm f8
1960s Tasco 15TE 76mm f15
1960s Tasco 7TE-5 60m f16
1955 Astro Optical 50mm f10
More refractors!
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 770
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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That's cool, and now we know where the other one was taken during new moon. 
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WRS Observatory
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AstroRealtor
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/26/08
Posts: 538
Loc: Terra Firma
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This is my favorite site about 90 minutes from my suburban Massachusetts home Can you believe this is open to the public? Hold on now.... you need to be invited
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Clear Skies, Jim
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Discovering: Messier objects, Deep sky treasures, NGCs, Double stars, & Nebulae of all kinds.
Televue 85 "Polaris" Mount
Custom Crafted Newtonian Dob 8" f7 w/Feathertouch
Celestron Cometron Reflector 114mm f8
Zeiss Diafun 8 X 30 Binos
Zeiss 10 X 56 Binos
 Aldrich Astronomical Society
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vinnie
Latinist
Reged: 01/05/08
Posts: 1392
Loc: Queensland, Australia
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This is a site that I use when I am home in town, about 3 mins drive from my front door
Vin
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Vin
Vixen VMC200L Cass, Skywatcher 127 Mak, Vixen NA120S Ref, Skywatcher ED80 Ref.
Skywatcher EQ6, HEQ5, EQ3-2 Mounts. Too many EP's
"If a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, a circle is the longest distance between the same point, provided the circle is big enough" - W.C.Sellar & R.J.Yeatman
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panhard
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 01/20/08
Posts: 2082
Loc: 43.88 n 79.17 w
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Quote:
I think the moderators need to lock this thread to keep we suburbanites from wreching in jealousy.
David
It makes me ashamed to show the site that I drive 1/2 hr to get to.
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10"Sky watcher dob
8 & 17mm Hyperion eye pieces
12x50 binos
A love for this hobby
"What goes around comes around."
"She who must be obeyed."
Herb c
cloudy nights my # 1 site
43.53°n 79.17°w
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InkDark
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 10/29/07
Posts: 1043
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Hi Geoff,
Sorry I don't have a picture so I can't contribute, but I must say that this is a great thread! I like looking at those pictures...very nice everyone!
Thanks Geoff for starting such a thread!
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Jimmy
"Rarely Have So Many Understood So Little About So Much" - Palle Yourgrau
"...since that time, I have not complained about the weather one single time. I’m glad there is weather." – Alan Bean, Apollo 12
What do you mean by “Saving the Earth”? The Earth is not in danger! Don’t worry about the planet it will be here long after we are extinct...
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NightMonkey
super member
Reged: 01/10/08
Posts: 182
Loc: Upstate, SC
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Sigh....all you guys make me green....I dream about Bortle Scale 3....and that is 2 hours away....Planning a camping trip real soon....Nothing like the canoe, the scope and the family.
Really nice sites though...beats my asphalt jungle any day.
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Meade DS-2114ATS-LNT
Meade 285
Celestron Eyepiece and Filter Set
Thousand Oaks Solar Filter
Quickcam Pro 5000
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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 9655
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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Quote:
That's beautiful Dave. Ever been to Toroweap on the north rim but on the west end of the park?
Toroweap's one of my top three favorite spots in the Canyon. I've never taken the scope there, though. Yet.
That's another long, bumpy dirt road!
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Homebuilt 10" dob, old Coulter mirror.
16" Royce conical mirror: Construction on S.O.E. (Sauron's Other Eye) has officially begun!
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THEPLOUGH
Nailed Again
Reged: 01/11/08
Posts: 3507
Loc: Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND
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Thanks for sharing those sites look awesome. It sure makes me want to see them for myself....  ...
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Geoff...
Nexstar 8SE -- 9X50 RACI Finder scope... 6.3 F/R.-- 13 & 17mm Hyperion EPs.. 25mm Celestron E- Lux EP.. 2X Celestron X-Cel Barlow-- + A few bits and pieces..
Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice..
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 25796
Loc: montana
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Quote:
Their are some nice photos here. Carol you built you obs. in the right place. Those views are magnificent, and right on your door step too.....
Thanks Geoff! I'm very fortunate, I look out my East windows & the Observatory is right there.
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Carol
AstroTech 16" Dob (Thanks ASTRONOMICS!)
AstroTech 66ED / Vixen 80MF/AstroTech Voyager
Masuyama's 7.5, 15, 25W, 35mm,
Tak LE 5mm
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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