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Chuckwalla Bench, Colorado Desert, California, 29 October 2011 As promised, last weekend was the first of two excellent dark sky weekends this month. The weather turned out to be perfect for this one as well. Jane and I went to our old favorite spot off I-10, Chuckwalla Bench, on BLM land south of Joshua Tree in the Colorado [...] Observing report, October 22, 2011 It's very easy to miss this sign from National Trails Highway, the delightful old U.S. Highway 66. This month is blessed with two very good dark sky observing weekends, and we opted to take the first one at a spot we’ve been thinking about for a [...] Click here for the full photo album with lots more pictures. The snow-capped peaks were beautiful from the Foothill Freeway It had been several months since our schedule, the weather, and the moon phase all cooperated to give us a chance to get out to our favorite astronomy spot. Jane and I, joined by Dave Hasenauer, ventured [...] These cumulus clouds were nearly stationary all evening, making quite the light show with an electrical storm Observing report, August 7, 2010 We hadn’t expected to be able to observe during this part of the summer from Chuckwalla Bench in the High Colorado desert south of Joshua Tree, but this August night’s forecast at Desert Center [...] Almost-full moon rising over I-210 in Pasadena at 8:00 p.m., July 24, 2010. It was about 8:00 p.m. Saturday night. Jane and I were driving home from having just seen Salt in Pasadena. This beautiful moon was rising above the Foothill Freeway, with dark blue earth shadow just below it. I realized in this one picture was [...] Jane snapped this shot of me shortly after sunset, squinting into the bit of wind we had. Happy Independence Day! This weekend wasn’t our usual dark sky new moon weekend; there would be a third-quarter moon rising just at midnight. With summer sunset at 8:00, and no real dark sky until about 9:00, we were looking at [...] Mojo, Caroline, Jane, Catherine, Gary, and Todd Update: Jane wound up using most of my astrophotos below in her July NASA What’s Up podcast. Check it out! The forecast was for a very temperate desert evening, so six of the Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers headed off to the Colorado Desert to play outside all night. Seeing was [...] Sometimes it’s the simplest thoughts that have the most profound effect on your visitors to the telescope. This past weekend we spent two clear dark nights in Mojave National Preserve sharing our big telescopes with about fifty park visitors and the MNP Conservation Association. This time of year, the sky is full of galaxies. We were showing spirals, [...] Photo from Feb. 2009 of the Astro-Physics Traveler getting ready for a night of imaging at Chuckwalla Bench Jane and I were by ourselves for the dark sky weekend of November 14, 2009. We set up at our usual spot at Chuckwalla Bench. Unlike the past two months, this night featured a cold air mass that [...] Full photo album of setting up and astrophotos here at the Whiteoaks Photo Album. Update: Here’s Jane’s version of the same evening. It was another perfect new moon Saturday for a trip to our favorite spot in the Colorado Desert out I-10. Yes this is a very full Grand Caravan! Jane and I happily took out all [...] |
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