AJ and Peter; Thank you very much for the information on Lat. and Long. Positions for the usual sites we travel to. I may get on the EVAC site and add a few more that I plan to visit in the future. All in all, I think I have enough to extrapolate any that are new and I do have a map of Arizona in the car, I will see if it has Lat. And Long. On the side of the map, I assume it will have that available. I do think that AJ and my new scopes use minutes and seconds, so thanks for the conversions, Peter. Also, the scope really only uses the position for the first setup and alignment stars, after that it has calculated its own spherical trip functions that apply to the sky from the stars used during the alignment. Clear Skies to us all; Steve Coe -----Original Message----- From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of AJ Crayon Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:47 PM To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-forum] Re: List of Latitude and Longitude for SAC observing sites Peter, my GPS uses decimal minutes so they were used. Guess I could have changed the decimal minutes to second with a simple multiplication by 60. I've tried to reset it to used seconds but haven't been successful. Thanks for the update. Clear skies, aj ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Argenziano <mailto:pargenz@xxxxxxx> To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:15 PM Subject: [sac-forum] Re: List of Latitude and Longitude for SAC observing sites Oops... forgot one: 113 01.900 = 113:01:54 ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Argenziano <mailto:pargenz@xxxxxxx> To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:11 PM Subject: [sac-forum] Re: List of Latitude and Longitude for SAC observing sites AJ, Here's what I have for Hovatter Road (Antenna): 33:35:07 N, 113:37:58 W And the notations in deg/min/sec for those specified as decimal minutes below: 112:05.147 = 112:05:09 112 53.749 = 112:53:45 113:17.833 = 113:17:50 Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: AJ Crayon <mailto:acrayon@xxxxxxx> To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:36 PM Subject: [sac-forum] Re: List of Latitude and Longitude for SAC observing sites Steve, here is my list - Latitude Longitude Antenna 33:35:?? 113:38:?? Arizona City 32:27:36 111:43:48 Cherry Rd #1 34:31:08 112:05:08 Cherry Rd #2 34:30:869 112:05.147 note decimal minutes Dirt Boulevard 33 15.125 112 53.749 note decimal minutes. Eagle Eye Rd 33:43.775 113:17.833 note decimal minutes. Five Mile Meadow 34:41:57 111:26:50 Flat Iron 33:39:58 112:49:11 Gas Line Rd 33:21:51 113:01:44 Saddle Mountain 33 21.865 113 01.900 note decimal minutes Sentinel 32:49:36 113:12:24 These are the more active sites. Note that I don't have a good fix on the Antenna site. Hope this helps. Clear skies, aj ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Coe <mailto:stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx> To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:00 PM Subject: [sac-forum] List of Latitude and Longitude for SAC observing sites Howdy all; I have a new mount, the Orion Sirius, and it demands a Lat-Long position for its location each time it starts up. I know that someone posted a listing of SAC observing sites that gave GPS positions and I may have downloaded it and it just went to the big hard drive in the sky;-) Anyway, I can't find it and would like to make a printout to take with me when I go out with the new mount. So, if someone (or several folks) has created such a list, would they please post it here so I can capture it. Thanks; Steve Coe