Hi all,
Well my Wife and I are back from our camping trip to northern Baja. It was a lot of driving, over 13000km! We took a pop up camper with us designed for off-roading, since the road to the property we are looking into buying is still very rough!
Sadly I got no exceptional seeing this trip, perhaps just a bit of bad luck or it may be that I still need to find some local hill to set up on, but that may need to wait till we are building our house since the terrain is rough and I may need a bulldozer! The main purpose though was to get a feel for the land to see if we would like living there. It is amazingly still there, no sound of any sort of traffic, I only heard 2 jets the whole 4 day stay! After the moon set I got the feeling the sky darkness was better than at TSP! The one semi astro shot I got was with my telephoto of the moon rising over a moutain ridge. We plan to visit again this fall, but I will also try imaging from the observatory at the peak of the mountain. It was a very fun adventure!
cheers
Mike
Well my Wife and I are back from our camping trip to northern Baja. It was a lot of driving, over 13000km! We took a pop up camper with us designed for off-roading, since the road to the property we are looking into buying is still very rough!
Sadly I got no exceptional seeing this trip, perhaps just a bit of bad luck or it may be that I still need to find some local hill to set up on, but that may need to wait till we are building our house since the terrain is rough and I may need a bulldozer! The main purpose though was to get a feel for the land to see if we would like living there. It is amazingly still there, no sound of any sort of traffic, I only heard 2 jets the whole 4 day stay! After the moon set I got the feeling the sky darkness was better than at TSP! The one semi astro shot I got was with my telephoto of the moon rising over a moutain ridge. We plan to visit again this fall, but I will also try imaging from the observatory at the peak of the mountain. It was a very fun adventure!
cheers
Mike
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But its not all this bad and roads can be fixed! Glad I had 4 wheel drive though!
