Whiteoaks Photo Albums » 2011-01-29-chuckwalla

Jane, Mojo, and Dave Hasenauer head to the desert for some winter sky observing.

Heading out 210, seeing Mt. San Jacinto in the distance.	Jane's 17.5-inch Litebox with Barry's beautiful mirror lid.	Unpacking at Chuckwalla Bench, Dave in the background has...	Lovely view of our site looking toward the north.
Dave's desert office, includes his original Unitron 60mm...	Jane shows off her star chain mirror cover.	Equipment unloaded and ready for assembly, complete with...	Mojo's desk is unloaded, with the tripod leveled, mount...
Desert Jane getting out her 80mm finderscope for the big...	Rosette nebula in Monoceros, 2x15 minute exposures. AP...	Jane and Dave had a difficult time finding comet...	That faint smudge in the middle of the slightly...
The Cone nebula is the dark nebula near the center of the...	Just to the right of center is galaxy NGC2655 with a...	Crop of the previous image pointing out the bright...	I love this shot of M97 (the Owl Nebula, upper right) and...
Before dawn officially arrived, we all enjoyed this great...	Southern sky from Chuckwalla Bench before dawn. The...	Dawn starts to break over Chuckwalla mountain. The bright...	Closeup of the mount control junction. Serial cables...
The bottom of the SBIG ST-4000XCM shows connections for...	A morning picture of Mojo's astrophotography equipment....	Jane in the pre-dawn skies with her big dob, the moon and...	Dave also enjoyed this very old moon crescent with his...
This is the area where Jane's dob was resting: one flat...	Dave's truck almost completely packed and ready to return...	Our van with all the telescope gear, ready for tables and...	Dave and Mojo over breakfast at Chiriaco Summit getting a...
This picture is very low contrast, but the view of the...	Jane noticed and snapped this picture of stacked standing...

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