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profdant139
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Nov 04, 2013

Utah or Ariz camping in Dec for the comet: advice?

Supposedly, Comet ISON may put up a show in early December -- comets are hard to predict. But if it does (and even if it doesn't!), I want to head to dark skies in the desert for some photos. So her...
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NCWriter
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Nov 06, 2013
Also in Canyonlands, Needles section, there's Squaw Flat CG (has a size limit of 26’ if I remember correctly.) Or maybe that's what you referred to about the cliffs blocking?

But I would go to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Very remote, hiking amid the mothership of ancestral Puebloan ruins. Amazing place. The ranger station has an observatory and they do extensive Night Sky programs.

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