[AZ-Observing] Re: Telescope status in Catalinas
- From: "balinka" <pegsam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:30:49 -0700
Here are some pictures I took of one of the observatories and Aspen fire in
the Catalina mountains. This first shot is from the parking lot at work in
Oro Valley, looking east:
http://www.balinka.com/aspenobs01a.jpg
The second shot is from about 1/2 mile south, on Oracle Road (Hwy 77). The
image isn't the greatest because this is digitally zoomed and the wind was
blowing like hell. Still, you can see that the observatory structure is
still standing:
http://www.balinka.com/aspenobs02a.jpg
The last shot is from about a mile further south, again on Oracle Road:
http://www.balinka.com/aspenobs03a.jpg
You'll just have to take my word that the blurry thing is the observatory.
In keeping with the discussion on seeing --- Transparency = 0 to 8
(depending on smoke plume), seeing (as captured electronically) = 1 (damn
the wind...)
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Skiff" <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Telescope status in Catalinas
> Last January every observatory director in the US Southwest saw
> those picutres of the Stromlo fire and said "that could be us in
> about six months." Well, here it is six months later. The Tucson fire
> has engendered a certain amount of overdue backing-up of computer files
> here at Lowell (and taking copies off-site), so it is having its
> salutory effects.
>
> \Brian
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