The Sphinx Observatory

[dweller25]

Good seeing from here 🙂………

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_Observatory

 

Edited September 26, 2021 by dweller25

[Floater]

Little point in packing my scope, though? 😳😉

[RobertI]

Spectacular. Not come across this one before. 🙂

[Louis D]

I took the elevator to the Sphinx observation deck back in '93 when I visited the Jungfraujoch with my wife.  The view is quite spectacular.  I've got to wonder though, how many clear nights a year do they get?

I'm looking at buying a second home near Cloudcroft, NM.  Just to the south is the Sunspot Solar Observatory and Apache Point Observatory and to the east is the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico and Stars End astronomy subdivision.

[oscar_camilleri]

Knowing my luck, after  trekking for 12 hours and hauling all of my equipment up the mountain, I'm sure it will be the only day in the year where the skies will be grey.  

Then again my partner is Japanese, and it is on my bucket list to do an observing session from the top of mount Fuji. 

 

[RobertI]

21 hours ago, Louis D said:

I took the elevator to the Sphinx observation deck back in '93 when I visited the Jungfraujoch with my wife.  The view is quite spectacular.  I've got to wonder though, how many clear nights a year do they get?

I'm looking at buying a second home near Cloudcroft, NM.  Just to the south is the Sunspot Solar Observatory and Apache Point Observatory and to the east is the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico and Stars End astronomy subdivision.

Sounds like paradise Louis. 🙂

[Louis D]

2 minutes ago, RobertI said:

Sounds like paradise Louis. 🙂

That, and the weather is cool in the summer with low humidity.  Winters are fairly mild by mountain standards due to being so far south and surrounded by desert.