| Subject: Re: A bonanza of Bonanza Peak photos |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 22/10/2009, 03:01 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Oct 21, 6:53 pm, obviouslydelusional
<obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 21, 9:19 am, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:
obviouslydelusional wrote:
Bombing targets around the bottom of the image, both in the left
corner and
midway:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_targets.jpg
And Papoose Lake in the background.
I'm having a hard time seeing how it's Papoose.
The sightline from Bonanza would mean that we're
looking directly up the long axis of Papoose lk,
at maybe 350 degrees true.
In Miso's photo, there's a pretty wide and clearly
visible road coming from the eastern most piece of
the visible lake. That would have to be around
the tongue, and Bob's chop shop. I can't see that
road, going in that direction, on GE.
And if that is indeed the sightline, does that put
the targets around 36.727952n 115.802246w ?
Any other identifiers in the pic(s) that help suggest
that it is papoose?
Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke
www.n0eq.com
Well, shit. I hate it when other people are right. You are indeed
correct, it's not Papoose. It's Groom.
I didn't pay close enough attention to the mountains behind the lake.
In the overall panorama they are a bit faint, so it's hard to see the
precise ridge line. Bald is just out of the frame to the right.
Papoose is apparently out of sight. All part of the plan.
I don't have any vectors, but since you can see Papoose from Stirling,
you should be able to see it from Bonanza, right? I will try to dig up
the overlays, but I did the overlay for the peak, not the saddle where
I took the photos.
The contrast is cranked up big time to get around the haze. I don't
think you could really get better images under the circumstances,
though I should invest in a 400um lowpass, which would get rid of some
of the haze. But I'd probably go back with a telescope anyway and do
some better photos.
One thing you would want to do is take vectors at night. I'm sure
there are all sorts of things blinking in the hills, or at least
putting out light.
