David Silva, Bob Douglas and I met for an early dinner in Healdsburg on Wednesday and then drove up to Lake Sonoma before sunset and set up at Grey Pine Flat....
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I found a spot that may be suitable off of Morman Emigrant Trail with good access.(paved)I mentioned it in a previous post. Only the north and northwest have...
... OK. The map I was looking at was too small scale to have such things as highway numbers and names on it. For all I know, I could have been looking at the...
You guys have piped my curiousity.. Noticed on my map of MET area that there is a turnoff to a unimproved road that goes to the top of Leek Spring Hill. Also...
I think the Sno-Park off MET near 88 is the area now posted "No Trespassing." Leek Spring Hill is the fire lookout I mentioned in my previous post. The...
Plus...check it out on the light pollution map...maybe too close to Reno ans -outh Lake Tahoe. Clears, Shneor ... From: Tony Date: 4/2/05 3:36 pm To:...
It did not begin auspiciously. Though I was ready to leave half an hour early, I found that I had a flat tire. I pumped it up with my battery compressor, and...
... Canebrake! Oh WOW.... that's down near home. I've been through there a hundred times. It's near Onyx which is supposed to be another dark sky site....
Hi Jane, I took 179 off 99 out of Bakersfield to get there. It's 7 miles past Onyx. But the weather isn't always that good, from what Joe told me, and there's ...
I drove down to the Carrizo Plain National Monument near Buttonwillow off I-5 Saturday night. It's another 45 minutes from Buttonwillow past McKittrick to the...
If you plan to attend the Shingletown Star Party and have not yet paid your registration fees, they increase from $40 to $50 per person (adults) on April 16. ...
... OK, I now know exactly where the campground is. It's right where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses Hwy. 178. That should be an incredible place to observe...
I very muxh want to. But the only viable time - before fire season - is during SSP unless the road is clear in early June. Shneor ... From: Jane Smith Date:...
Plettstone Telescopes has paid in full. Can't wait to see all those 15" f/5 scopes up there! :-) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
That sounds like alot of interesting fun Mark, too bad my viewing in Klamath Falls coinsides with the SSP dates this year...I would have loved to introduce my...
300mm versus 558mm : Mewlon 300 versus my 22"...Better views of deep sky objects?.........I doubt it..... Aperture wins every time. See a good article by "Da...
Oops, sorry...linked to the wrong article by the same dude. Here is the correct one. http://www.observers.org/beginner/deep.sky.html Alvin ... From: Alvin Huey...
Last Thursday night I got to do some of what Richard Navarrete calls renegade astronomy, going out to a fairly remote site on a weeknight. There were two other...
http://observers.org/observing/eyecandy/index.html Linked off the main TAC page top left under Observing: what to view. Joe Bob'll tell you to check it out....
... Alvin, I just read the article on Cloudy Nights. I think Mark K is in love with his scope, which is great, and perhaps he's perhaps a bit biased. But, I ...
The 5 day forecast looks iffy at best. Possible showers on Friday, and partly cloudy on Saturday. I would like to set up, if there's any chance it will stay...
Hey ya Mark...I do have to say, I talked with Keitel and picked his brain on numerous ocasions regarding the M300 before I went with a "DK" Takahashi's...After...
I'll have Friday and Saturday off. I'm planning to camp overnight at Fiddletown if local weather is good. If it's better down south, I might go back to the...
