Comments on: What’s Up in 2013 at a glance http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2013/01/07/whats-up-in-2013-at-a-glance/ Random thoughts about LA and the rest of the universe Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jane http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2013/01/07/whats-up-in-2013-at-a-glance/comment-page-1/#comment-4419 jane Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:10:15 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=6919#comment-4419 For meteor showers, I like to go someplace flat and as dark as possible. So I do travel a long way to escape light pollution and get the flat horizons I like. So Azusa is too close to the San Gabriel Valley light pollution for me. Like you said, you didn’t see much. I observed the Perseids from my Urban back yard in Monrovia, and only saw 15 (10 were Perseids) in 3 hours of looking. On a work night I can’t drive 3 hours each way to Amboy Crater. Joshua Tree National Preserve is great – Cottonwood Road Campground, Jumbo Rocks, and Hidden Valley picnic area are all good. The city of Joshua Tree (not horrible, especially out of town) or Palmdale (light polluted) Have a look at this map and the black dots in SE Cal are where I go http://cleardarksky.com/csk/prov/California_map.html?Mn=equatorial%20mount Amboy Crater, Hole in the Wall Campground in Mojave National Preserve. Yosemite Glacier Point Fri and Sat nights Aug 23-24, Hole in the Wall October 26.

]]> By: carmen http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2013/01/07/whats-up-in-2013-at-a-glance/comment-page-1/#comment-4409 carmen Wed, 21 Aug 2013 02:29:34 +0000 http://jane.whiteoaks.com/?p=6919#comment-4409 Hi Jane,

I went up into the Azusa canyon this year to view the meteor showers and didn’t see much. Some of the places you recommend Amboy creator, seem really far away, as you stated. What do you think of Joshua tree or Palmdale or driving further into the local mountains ?

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