FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Antennas site over the weekend - and Saddle Mtn too, sort-of

["Peter Argenziano" <pargenz@xxxxxxx>]

Tom, is this the site that you, Jenn, Glen and I checked out awhile back?

For those in attendance: did traffic cease after midnight?

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Antennas site over the weekend - and Saddle Mtn 
too, sort-of


---- Matt <mluttinen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There was a discussion of the merits of the site itself...   Also there 
> was comment about the
> distance from the freeway - closer would be better. So the site is not 
> bad,
> but definitely not perfect.


Despite the occasional headlights,  I was impressed with the quality of the 
Saddle Mountain site this past Saturday.  I would disagree with "closer [to 
the freeway] is better."  We tried to find something close to the freeway 
earlier this year, and the headlights on I-10 were bothersome at quite a 
distance, and nearly impossible to block.  The "potential site" that I 
referred to in this posting to SAC-Forum did not work out, either.

http://www.freelists.org/archives/sac-forum/01-2007/msg00098.html

Proximity to the freeway invariably brings local lights into the scene.  The 
welcome feature of Saddle Mountain is that there are zero local lights 
around the horizon.  I created this overview from Google Earth before 
anybody went to Saddle Mountain.  It is located due south of the "Tom & Jenn 
site" and due west of Palo Verde.

http://members.cox.net/tpolakis/astro/sites1.jpg

If somebody can find a site with the attributes of Saddle Mountain closer to 
the freeway, we should pursue it.

Tom
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