[AZ-Observing] Re: Thunderbird Park Star Party

Thanks, Paul -- good tips, I'll try it!
Gene
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Paul Dickson wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:48:05 -0700, gene lucas wrote:
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>>Thanks for the tip, Paul, I was impressed by the quick loading and 
>>quality of the maps and pix (not all the pix are high-reso satellite 
>>photos), but was wondering how to get the lat and lon values.  I still 
>>like the grids on the terraserver maps, though.
>>Gene
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>Google defaults to your search request in the URL.  But if you offset the
>image, and create a new link for that position, the URL will contain the
>Long&Lat values.
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>I have not tried this, but you could use the hop buttons in the upper
>left corner.  Hop east, get the Long value, then hop west twice and get
>that value, the real value should be the average.  Or if you're math
>challenged, hop east, get the Lat, hop back and then hop N (or S) and get
>the Long.
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>       -Paul
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