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In September 2004, we purchased our "retirement land" in Oracle, Arizona, north of Tucson. In December 2007, we moved to Oro Valley, just south of Oracle, as our temporary home while we begin construction of our new home in Oracle. This page documents my reports from "Oracle Observatory", elevation 4370'. Road to Oracle Observatory blog
Mighty ETX Site
8" LX90-ACF Reports
LXD55/75 Site
LXD75 Theft report

Reports
DateTelescope
29-31 Aug 2008 [planned] ETX-90RA, PST
27-29 July 2008 [wx cnx]
3-5 July 2008 [wx cnx]
31 May - 1 June 2008 ETX-90RA, ETX-125AT
5 May 2008 ETX-125AT, PST
8-10 April 2008 [wx cnx]
7 March 2008 ETX-90RA, PST
20 February 2008 [wx cnx]
6-7 February 2008 ETX-90RA, ETX-125AT
7-8 January 2008 [cnx - equipment theft]
12-13 October 2007 LXD75-8"SC
12-13 September 2007 [wx cnx]
11-12 August 2007 [wx cnx]
15-16 June 2007 LXD75-8"SC
11-12 May 2007 LXD75-8"SC
13-14 April 2007 LXD75-8"SC
16-17 March 2007 LXD75-8"SC
16-17 February 2007LXD75-8"SC
19-20 January 2007 [wx cnx]
21-22 December 2006LXD75-8"SC
20-21 October 2006LXD75-8"SC
22-23 September 2006ETX-70AT, ETX-105PE
18-19 August 2006LXD75-8"SC, ETX-70AT
24 June 2006[wx cnx]
26-27 May 2006LXD75-8"SC
28-29 April 2006LXD55-8"SC, ETX-105PE
31 March - 1 April 2006[wx cnx]
4 March 2006LXD55-8"SC
28 January 2006LXD55-8"SC
28-29 December 2005LXD55-8"SC
3 December 2005LXD55-8"SC
24-25 November 2005[wx cnx]
29 October 2005LXD55-8"SC
24 September 2005LXD55-8"SC
6 August 2005LXD55-8"SC
2-3 July 2005LXD55-8"SC
11 June 2005ETX-90RA
26-27 May 2005ETX-90RA
30 April 2005ETX-105PE
2 April 2005ETX-105PE
12 March 2005LXD55-8"SC
wx cnx = weather cancel (unfavorable forecast)
Current Conditions [Click image for full size version]
Kitt Peak National Observatory webcams
(West of Tucson)
Arizona Webcam (Tucson)
Kitt Peak Webcam
(looking North)
Arizona Webcam
(looking North)

More Tucson Webcams
Kitt Peak Webcam
(looking South)


Weather Satellites: [Click image for full size version]
Visible Satellite
NWS Visible SW
Infrared Satellite
NWS Infrared SW
Weather Forecasts
AccuWeather
The Weather Channel
National Weather Service
Tucson Citizen (newspaper)
Clear Sky Chart
Clear Sky Clock
(8 miles SW of Oracle)
Astronomical Data
USNO Moon Phase

Get Quicktime The panorama at the top of the page looks from South (on the left) through West to North. It was made using DoubleTake, which automatically stitched five photographs taken with my Nikon D70 DSLR into the panorama. Click the panorama to view a QuickTime VR (2.6MB) version.

I have created a montage of some of the photographs I have taken at Oracle Observatory. Click the image to see a larger version (160KB).
Montage
Toyota Prius packing
Click the photo to view a QuickTime movie (804KB) of packing my 2002 Toyota Prius Hybrid for a trip to Oracle Observatory.
Oracle Observatory
Click the photo for a Quicktime movie (single images taken approximately every hour; 1.8MB) of the 8.5 hour trip when I had to drive across California and Arizona to Oracle.
Oracle Observatory
Click the photo to view a QuickTime movie (2.8MB) showing how I set up for my stays at Oracle Observatory.
Oracle Observatory
Click the photo to see what Oracle Observatory typically looks like during my stays and to read a description of what's in the photo.

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