[AZ-Observing] Re: Thunderbird Park Star Party

  • From: gene lucas <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:48:05 -0700

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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Paul Dickson wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:34:11 -0700, Jack Jones wrote:
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>>It was mag -8 at the center which I thought was further west a few kilometers,
>>so I extrapolated -5 or-6, but if indeed over 59th Ave, would be -8 yes. The
>>Heavens-Above site used to name the actual streets, but I haven't seen that
>>lately, just a kilometer and mile figure either side. Wonder what happened to
>>it, or I'm not clicking the right spot.
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>Just a reminder, if you need Lat/Long, maps.google.com has them encoded
>in the URL when you make a link to the location you found.  Look at the
>pretty satellite images of the area too.  :-)
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>       -Paul
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