FAB
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 2324
Loc: Blythe, CA USA
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I'll post an image taken in each direction. This is a good site, but is about a twenty minute drive from Blythe in a four wheel drive jeep. The pictures weren't taken from exactly the same place and on different days, but are of the same area. Image 1: South, note the Native American dance or sleeping circles.
FAB
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FAB
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 2324
Loc: Blythe, CA USA
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Image 2: West
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Floie
10.0" Hardin Dob
6.0" Konus Refractor
3.0" Celestron Tabletop Newtonian
10X50 Binoculars
Bristoscope 772212 Microscope
http://home.earthlink.net/~blhtvl
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http://home.earthlink.net/~astroclub
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FAB
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 2324
Loc: Blythe, CA USA
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Image 3: East
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Floie
10.0" Hardin Dob
6.0" Konus Refractor
3.0" Celestron Tabletop Newtonian
10X50 Binoculars
Bristoscope 772212 Microscope
http://home.earthlink.net/~blhtvl
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http://home.earthlink.net/~astroclub
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FAB
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 2324
Loc: Blythe, CA USA
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To the north unfortunately is found civilization. I don't want to mislead anyone. We do have cloudy days. In fact, as I recall, there was a cloud last February 30.
Image 4: North
FAB 
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Floie
10.0" Hardin Dob
6.0" Konus Refractor
3.0" Celestron Tabletop Newtonian
10X50 Binoculars
Bristoscope 772212 Microscope
http://home.earthlink.net/~blhtvl
&
http://home.earthlink.net/~astroclub
Edited by FAB (07/09/08 11:27 PM)
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AstroRealtor
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/26/08
Posts: 538
Loc: Terra Firma
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And just as your luck would have it, that inhabitant to the north has a porch light right?
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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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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 839
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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Since we're bragging.
West
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WRS Observatory
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 839
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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North
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WRS Observatory
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 839
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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East
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WRS Observatory
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 839
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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And even an old condo? to the NW of the house. I don't think the porch light works. 
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Old Dinosaur
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/08/07
Posts: 839
Loc: Out in the sagebrush
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Carol,
Soon as you get out of this swamp here where my place is there's lots of Sagebrush
That country around your place is nothing to shake a stick at either!
Ain't we lucky to live out here next to the mountains? 
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WRS Observatory
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 28619
Loc: montana
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We certainly are very lucky! If that old cabin could talk, imagine the history
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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 B/TMB 3.2
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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csa/montana
Astro Ambassador
Reged: 05/14/05
Posts: 28619
Loc: montana
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Fab, clear the roof off, & presto, an Observatory 
Really great skies there, beautiful!
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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 B/TMB 3.2
7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW
14mm Meade 4000 UWA
22mm Pan, 35mm Pan
DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2
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miniventures
Something Else
Reged: 09/13/03
Posts: 11056
Loc: Powell Butte, Central Oregon
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I guess I need to share, too. Here's a view of my southern horizon
and here's a view to the west
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LarryC
Volunteer
http://www.sunrivernaturecenter.org
Edited by miniventures (07/07/08 04:37 PM)
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InkDark
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/29/07
Posts: 1502
Loc: Montreal, Canada
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Awesome everyone! Those observing sites are awesome! Moreover, the pictures also show that Earth is really beautiful as well.
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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
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desertrefugee
professor emeritus
Reged: 08/06/07
Posts: 527
Loc: Arizona
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Here's one of the desert dwellers' refuges - high on the Mogollon Rim, just under 7000' at a place we call Five Mile Meadow. Great when the summer temperatures down in the desert are brutal and 2.5 hours northeast of Phoenix:
And here's one of our primary winter sites, again about 2 hours from Phoenix - to the west and not too far from the California border:
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"Look now upon the River of Heaven, Sky-Road of the Immortals, White with the star-frost of a billion years".
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-Darrell
Reflectors (114, 150, 254mm), Refractors (60, 76.2, 80, 120), MCT (125), way too many Binoculars
Cave Creek/Carefree, AZ
Edited by desertrefugee (07/08/08 11:18 PM)
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1637
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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Wow! A lot of very nice sites, folks.
Here's one that I've been to twice and both times we were scopeless. These photos were taken at the 11,800' elevation on top of the Sweetwater range north of Bridgeport Cal. This is a place I plan to take my Dob to later this summer. Again it is a Bortle class 1 site and at that elevation I would imagine it could be pretty nice.
The 1st photo is looking North. It was a VERY windy day (guessing 80+ mph)
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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: 1637
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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This one is looking East
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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: 1637
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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View to the South
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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: 1637
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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And this is where we camp. It's a ghost town named Belfort and the cabin was constructed in 1880. This is at the 10,200' elev.
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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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llanitedave
Humble Megalomaniac
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 10474
Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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You're a brave one, Randy! I've read somewhere that above 10,000 feet, the sensitivity of your eyes starts to decrease from lack of oxygen. I wonder if that might be more true for those who live closer to sea level.
I know the sensitivity of my eyes decreases from lack of heat!
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"S.O.E." (Sauron's Other Eye) 16" Royce conical mirror: A permanent work in progress.
10" Homebuilt dob, old Coulter mirror
Next Project: The "Eye of Sauron" Observatory!
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