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jturie
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Reged: 11/19/12

Loc: Valley Forge, PA

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[Re: wirebender]
#5555869 - 12/05/12 03:33 PM

Thanks for taking the time to post these three trip reports. I enjoyed looking at the pictures. Got to get there someday.

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MDB
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Reged: 06/06/12

Loc: Idaho

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[Re: jturie]
#5555919 - 12/05/12 04:15 PM

Thanks Dave for another great trip report!
My first exposure to the mighty 200 inch Hale telescope was in the mid 1950's, first grade and the 'Weekly Reader' and it's as awe inspiring today as it was then.

Mike

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GeneT
Ely Kid

Reged: 11/07/08

Loc: South Texas

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[Re: Dave Mitsky]
#5556018 - 12/05/12 05:08 PM

Great report! Have you visited before? If not, I would bet that this was a 'bucket list' item, right?

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Gary Riley
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Reged: 12/01/11

Loc: White Bluff, TN

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[Re: GeneT]
#5556144 - 12/05/12 06:30 PM

Wonderful post Dave! Thanks a bunch for sharing your trip and photos of Mt. Palomar Observatory with the rest of us.

Gary

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David Pavlich
Transmographied

Reged: 05/18/05

Loc: Mandeville, LA USA

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[Re: Dave Mitsky]
#5556523 - 12/05/12 10:03 PM

Good stuff, Dave! Thanks for posting all the pictures.

David

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Dave Mitsky
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Reged: 04/08/02

Loc: PA, USA, Planet Earth

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[Re: GeneT]
#5556552 - 12/05/12 10:18 PM

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Great report! Have you visited before? If not, I would bet that this was a 'bucket list' item, right?

Thanks. It was my first visit to the observatory. I hadn't been to California for many years. My brother and I were thinking about stopping at Palomar on the way back from Ensenada, Mexico, back in the 1980s but we ran out of time.

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Danzup77
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Reged: 09/12/11

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[Re: Dave Mitsky]
#5556786 - 12/06/12 01:48 AM

Yes Yes! I used to go up here frequently during my 3 year stay at Camp Pendleton. I miss the old South West....even got caught in a snow storm up there once. Had to follow the plow truck down

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rdandrea
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 06/13/10

Loc: Colorado, USA DM59ra

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[Re: Dave Mitsky]
#5557227 - 12/06/12 10:27 AM

Wonderful report. Thanks!

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George N
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 05/19/06

Loc: Binghamton & Indian Lake NY

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[Re: rdandrea]
#5557973 - 12/06/12 05:46 PM

Great pictures Dave! ….and I’m glad to see that you had a Stellafane shirt on!

When I visited, about 8 years ago, they were painting over the rust on the 200-inch. A week or so later at Stellafane I sat “under the tent” in the rain for the main talk which was about the connection between the two places (mostly Porter).

After the scope was completed, but before fully commissioned, RW Porter and a small group of astronomers and engineers actually used the scope visually for a night, and that was back when they had dark skies. They describe M-13 as looking like the contents of a spilled sugar bowl.

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ducatirob
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Reged: 06/15/05

Loc: SW Ohio

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[Re: George N]
#5560482 - 12/08/12 07:43 AM

Great report, really enjoyed it, Thanks

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NeilMac
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Reged: 09/25/10

Loc: MedHat, AB, Canada

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[Re: ducatirob]
#5562337 - 12/09/12 12:15 PM

Great pictures !! Thanks!

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SteveNH
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Reged: 07/10/11

Loc: Millbrae, CA

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[Re: NeilMac]
#5562634 - 12/09/12 03:21 PM

Again, thanks Dave, great report, enjoyed the photos like I was actually there.

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Dave Mitsky
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Reged: 04/08/02

Loc: PA, USA, Planet Earth

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[Re: ensign]
#5589718 - 12/26/12 01:05 PM

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Thanks, Dave. I made the same trek in 2010. Your excellent trip report brought back memories of that trip. Wouldn't it be cool if you got to go "behind the glass?"

Mike,

I missed out on an opportunity to have private tours of Mt. Wilson and Palomar and an observing session with the 60" telescope at Mt. Wilson back in 1997 when the Antique Telescope Society held its yearly convention in Pasadena. Had I learned of the trip a bit earlier I would have been able to attend.

Dave Mitsky

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