Who you kidding. That's the same aerial photo the 'National Inquirer' has been passing off as an Iranian Nuclear Weapons plant. ;) Check out the berm surrounding the facility. Patrick, take a picture of the facility at night. show us what it looks like from several locations including the bat cave. If you can, move in close and include some shots of the light fixtures and their apparent locations from any nearby cover. Maybe you could estimate the distance and potential wind hazzard to each light. You can do that on paper. This info could come in handy if we ever decide to enact a 'dark sky' program. Don't forget to paint your face. ;) Just kidding... Qoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:

The new Wal Mart distribution center was mentioned here earlier. FYI, here's what it looks like (through today's haze). FWIW it's located on the far west side of the Tooele valley.

http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/TEMP001.JPG

As for Dark Sky site security, one could do like this guy near Grantsville and put in a mote. :-)

http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/TEMP002.JPG

And as long as I'm showing pictures, here's one showing someone's bad day (result of the pilot getting the flap thingie mixed up with the gear thingie).

http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/TEMP003.JPG

Patrick

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