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The BrightSkies Observatory is a
remotely controlled observatory in upper northwest Washington, DC,
3.29 miles north of the US Naval
Observatory. Located in a tree-infested, light-polluted neighborhood at a low elevation, it sees
about 45% of the sky. At one o'clock a.m. it's often bright enough
to read a newspaper "under the stars."
On the other hand, and on the "brighter" side, a 30-second exposure with an unfiltered, cooled CCD camera reaches 17th magnitude! On this site, you can see some of the interesting pictures and other research results obtained at Bright Skies. |
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Latitude: 38° 58'08.4" N Longitude: 77° 04'05.1" W Elevation: 121 meters (WGS84) 4m error ellipsoid The skies at BrightSkies: 
Last updated on Thursday, July 15, 2010 Copyright © 2005-2010, Richard A. Berg Visitor No. |
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