RE: [APML] Observatory update

["Chris Schur" <cschur@cybertrails.com>]

Kent, Flagstaff is a city on top of the colorado plateau, but you can get
away from it.  There is a lot of prime forest land on top, and no lights for
miles.  Ill take a  fisheye shot from the cabin up there of the night sky,
and you can see for yourself.

Chris Schur

Astrophotography: http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/index.html


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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [APML] Observatory update



In a message dated 6/7/02 10:34:45 PM, cschur@cybertrails.com writes:

>Hi all,
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>Ive been building the base framework to hold the floor deck 5 feet off
>the
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>ground for the new observatory to be built on the Mogollon Rim in Northern
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>Arizona just for my Schmidt cameras.  Here is a shot today, of the huge
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>assembly in my front yard in  Payson ready to be partially disassembled
>and
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>hauled up to the site, about an hour north of me. This will sit around
>the
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>tall 9 foot concrete pier allready up there.
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>http://www.psiaz.com/Schur/astro/clrckoty-framework.html
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>Chris Schur

Chris:

Why the Mogollon Rim area??
Recently, I had posted a question concerning observing sites in the
Flagstaff
area and everyone said that this was not a good area for several reasons,
including increasing light pollution.........and that a lot of large
vacation
homes are being built in the Mogollon Rim area.

Kent Kirkley

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