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

["Jim Vineyard" <deepskyphotos@hotmail.com>]

I dun'no Chris,

  That original jpeg I hunted down was maybe 4 times better resolution, and 
that "complex" to the due west covers around 20 full acres.
  Searching around on that satellite website made me realize how vast those 
desert lands really are and there are currently many properties for sale 
(probably blazing summer heat at them too!) on all the on-line 
"Multi-Listing Real Estate" sites.
  I don't figure I'm loosing out too bad if I pass that particular property 
up.  I have about 4 pictures of it, and really, it was believe it or not, 
the kitchen which was really nice!  The problem with anything more toward 
Tucson though is I figure the landing path into Tucson International 
Airport.  I don't want to catch planes all night!  Closer to Southern 
California I figure Phoenix will provide a very bright glow.  And up north 
is more expensive i.e. more temperate I guess.

  The Southern California market may finally be cooling down a bit too. 
Man, real estate prices have gone completely NUTS out here.  I still think 
what goes up must come down.  And I just may grab some acreage then.  If the 
stock market (DOW) finally really breaks free of the long standing 10,000 
plateau and forcefully too, as I expect it must eventually, and interest 
rates continue to rise (which they will) I figure real estate 
investors/speculators will dump properties while they still can and for 
higher returns, and at the same time people who over-bought on ARM's will 
begin going broke under their rising mortgage payments.  And then Voila!

Gee, is "Astrophotography Specific" real estate really on-topic after all?

Jim
(But like I say, I dun'no)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cook" <ccook@cape.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Fun With Satellites [was: California Desert Night Sky]


> 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
>
> -----------------------------
> 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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