Krackula wrote:

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good  pictures . those are great telephoto shots .

supposedly ,  the hanger doors were open most of the day and had
something  VERY interesting to see in there ....... by the time those
pictures were taken , the doors  had been  closed. probably hastily ,
as people approached.  sometimes people are lucky and catch stuff up
on the pylons as well ..... but evidently not this visit.

It is really hard to take photographs of something inside a hangar.
This is because the amount of light on the subject is very small. I've
done 3 stops of over-exposure and hardly made a dent on the shape of
the item in the hangar. But the long exposure over great distances
means more thermal effects.

>From where I parked, it was a two mile hike to where I took the photos.
I probably should have gone another mile. The hike was relatively flat.
The general area is full of what are probably illegal no tresspassing
signs. My route doesn't encounter any of these signs, but there are
probably shorter routes.

I know the route that you probably took , no signs at all if you go in
that way ...  pretty rough on your vehicle  ......... they can see you
coming for miles if you enter that way , tho.   probably think you are
a local , if you come that way .

The roads are smooth, though hardly safe. It is almost like driving in
a really clean ditch. Due to curves, you can't see very far ahead.

If the path is rigged, I didn't see any detection hardware. Detecting
someone on foot is harder than detecting a vehicle.

they have the " standard " little metal box with the wire hanging out
of it ,  I won't say where they are on the entrance road (  I know
that  you know how to easily  find them  )  ....... probably got them
around the fence line as well .

 I park near the

official entrance to the rance, so it is possible someone can guess
that if a car is parked by the road, somebody is snooping.

they dispatch vehicles   from the guard  shack  on the access  road  ,
located just below the rise on the entrance .  unlike the contractors
in  NV, they stay well back and just watch you from a distance .....
maybe they have " other  " forms of surveillance they rely upon more ,
dunno.

This gate is far to the south of the actual base. It isn't manned.

those pictures on alt.binaries.a51 were taken with a  regular little
digital camera with nothing fancy for lens etc.  make your own
judgements of where they were taken based on that !  h ah aha ha
 ha ha  ( scary huh ?  )  hear tell you could smell the coffee brewing
in the guard shack from where those pictures were taken. dunno myself.

it'd be interesting to live  on a farm on the higher land to the east
, towards the Tehachapi highway with your telephoto equipment .....
you could probably get some interesting pictures from there, at times
late at night .

Night shots are difficult. Night vision helps slightly, but there isn't
much light through a telescope. I might try a sensitive CCD. I have one
from Supercircuits.