Re: [APML] Fun With Satellites [was: California Desert Night Sky]

["Chris Cook" <ccook@cape.com>]

Hi Jim -

Its best you go check it out in person and stay the evening to see what the
local lights are like.  While buildings do show up on the sat image, in
reality they may not have that many lights on them....  Even if they do,
they're not going to have any great impact on the overall darkness of the
sky... well, unless its a nice blue-white mercury vapor sitting 100 ft
away.... <G>

Let me know what you find.

Best,

Chris

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Chris Cook Photography
www.cookphoto.com



>   Now, Thanks for the Meat and Potato"e"s there!!!  This is right on
target,
> what I was looking for!
>
>   Additionally, I had some excellent off-list help too, from a great
> astrophotographer, who knows the area better than one of old Chief
Cochise's
> braves.  Along with his excellent council, I decided to go high-tech.
>   I'd seen some topographic maps and low-rez USGS aerial/satellite photos
> last week but they were of limited use.  But today, um well, yesterday
now,
> I found some better resolution and color photos from the "Ikonos"
satellite.
> They sell images accurate to 1 meter per pixel for quite some coin.
>   But the public browseable low-rez images provide enough to find the
> property I was considering, though it is much like searching for a needle
in
> a haystack.  Anyway, I found the needle and decided to post a small and
> lower-rez yet jpeg image of a jpeg to which I added some detail
> identification.
>   The Realtor told me he didn't remember any neighbors so I might as well
> make the 1000 mile round trip to see it, since it'd been on the market
since
> last September.  Gee when I think of it, that's not so far, that is for a
> quality MOFN experience you know.
>   Due to not having found and read their copyright policy I'll just post
the
> following lower-rez jpeg for 2 or 3 days at most, you know kind of like
> Google does with their low-rez cached versions of everybody's images.
Here
> it is:
>
> www.deepskyphotos.com/Fun_With_Satellites.html
>


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