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LenSatic
Explorer
Dec 02, 2014

Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

For you meteor hunters out there in the boonies, there is other visible stuff buzzing around up there: satellites. The easiest to see is the International Space Station. It’s extremely bright and, w...
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DAS26miles
Explorer II
Jan 26, 2015
Coming back to LA from Quartzsite, we spent a night in Joshua Tree. On the way out of the park we decided to go to the visitor center at the Oasis of Mara. Passed a solar observatory just outside the park but before the Oasis. Anyone been there? They were open for observations, but we were running so late, we had passed it up.
Boy it was so dark at Jumbo Rocks, you could see your feet. Stars were unbelievable.

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