[AZ-Observing] Re: Cherry Road Site - Lat and Long?
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:47:38 -0700
Oh yeeaah! Can't wait. I'm so tired of watering my lawn.
Jack
Stan Gorodenski wrote:
> Ahhhhh! The sound of the monsoon season (although it is not the
> monsoon, yet). I just now heard thunder off in the distance, and it is
> partly cloudy and rainy looking in the mountains off to the distance.
> This is the nice time of the year to be up here in Dewey (about 15 miles
> due west of the Cherry Rd. site). Although the forecast shows it
> clearing up in time for everyone on Saturday, who knows, the unsettled
> and rainy weather may extend further. Then, everyone will experience the
> nice clean feeling of fresh falling rain! Something to look forward to
> instead of the hot stickiness of the Valley? :-) :-\
> Stan
>
> On 6/30/2010 10:38 AM, Tim Jones wrote:
>> Google Maps provides a very good location fix by entering the coords like
>> this in the search bar:
>>
>> 34º 30' 56"N 112º 5' 6"W
>>
>> (you can copy and paste if you don't know how to type the degrees symbol
>> (Option-zero on a Mac and ALT-0176 on the Windows keypad),
>>
>> The resulting little green arrow (not the red POI marker labeled "A") is
>> dead on.
>>
>> Tim
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