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Location: Placerville, CA.... You know, the only place on Highway 50 between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe the you find signal lights. Above the fog most of the time and I can see the stars of the Milky Way 8 out of 10 nights. Kinda cool.....
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Originally Posted by Eric Hahl View Post
That's a sweet wide field image of Andromeda!


Yeah, beautiful!!!!! What I really liked about this image was that MANY years ago in the late 80’s, my dad took us to see a friend of his who built an amateur observatory(seemed purdy darn professional to me) to peek at the sky. He was at a level that he was one of five amateur’s invited to Hawaii for the 86 Halley’s Comet.

Anyway, he showed us our sister galaxy with just a pair of binoculars. I am still amazed that there are folks that still think we are the only rock in space with life. Then again I have an aunt who thinks the earth is only 10K years old.........religion[emoji849]
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