Re: mountain facility?

On Oct 24, 5:11�pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:

m...@sushi.com wrote:

It occurred to me since I have some correspondence points between GE
and the photo, I can interpolate a vector to the mystery facility, or
pile of big ass rocks as the case may be. That will be my next post in
this thread.


I'm stoopid to the concept of photo editing.
But can you somehow kill/enhance the light wavelengths
that would be reflected by rock vs metal (plastic, glass whatever)?

Are there some kinds of assumptions we might make about
a mystery facility? Probably -

- Antenna (radome etc, including perhaps, weather sensing)
- Occupyable structure (nearly always rectangular)
- Target (probably not at that location but any target
would have some kind of recognizable pattern, that's
why it's a target)
- Vestage? Some old foundation, structure, covered
wagon, nuclear sensor, whatever, from days past.

What about access? Very few points on the range have
non ground access. Seems it would have to be pretty
important to warrant an air only access (Badger?).
Even Bald has ground access, even if they choose to
use air some times. If a facility DOES have air
access (exclusively or redundant to ground) it would
have to have some requisite structures for landing
a helo.

We could perhaps also think-tank the "What purpose"
concept. The area in question in this case is within
what might be bombing practice range, but it doesn't seem
to be in an area which is typically bomb range (east of there).
Perhaps the only logical guess about it's use as bomb related
might be some kind of sensor/radar/waypoint.

Perhaps this is the elusive VOR waypoint for landing at TKM.

Or, it could be rocks.

Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com


I updated the GPX file to include vectors to the target, and added a
few waypoints of things that looked interesting.

Rectangular is generally accepted for construction. Why make work? Now
Google Earth can make things look boxy that are not boxy, but I don't
think a camera does that.

Filtering the camera itself is generally more effective than after the
fact filtering in photoshop. I almost always use a warming filter on a
400mm lens if I know the objects are going to be far away. This keeps
the cast under control and prevents generally the blue content of the
image from setting the exposure. In the telescope, I use s 420nm and
KR1.5 to bring the color into balance and filter off haze. I'm not
really sure what you can do after the fact other than my typical
scheme of killing the blue channel, then converting to grayscale. The
blue channel tends to have the most gunk in it.

Back to the GPX, I put in a waypont for where the Stirling photographs
are done. To my knowledge, Tom Mahood and the Desert Secrets guy (name
escapes me) did not photograph from  the peak, but just  used the spot
I provided. I know Trevor Paglen went to the top of Mt. Stirling, but
I don't recall asking him if he took any shots there. In any event,
with a combination of Bonanza and Striling, you could get enough
vectors to locate stuff.

I wonder if the ridge I photographed is the elusive Pyramid visual
waypoint. There is no hidden VOR as far as I know. A pilot I know that
wants to remain anonymous located the PYD beacon.
http://www.lazygranch.com/nellis_range_beacons.htm