{"id":347,"date":"2007-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/08\/01\/northern_arizon_1\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:00:00","slug":"northern_arizon_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/08\/01\/northern_arizon_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona Observing Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting photographs and information for several of the observing sites I&#8217;ve used or scouted around Flagstaff. My intention has been to eventually put together a list of Northern Arizona observing sites with detailed information, maps and photos of each. My inspiration has been the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siowl.com\/index.html?ObservingSites\/obssites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucson area observing site page<\/a> put together by Andrew Cooper. One of my two main sites, Anderson Mesa, was recently moved to the front of my to-do list after our club was contacted by Daniel Pendick at <i>Astronomy Magazine<\/i>. He is writing an article for an upcoming issue that will feature beloved observing sites in the US&#8211;and Anderson Mesa is on that list. It should be an enjoyable and informative article. Keep yer eyes peeled; they may use one of my photos \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The page I&#8217;ve started can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/000676.html\">here.<\/a> I&#8217;ve also added a permanent link above in the page banner. Anderson Mesa is the only site on the list at the moment. On the roster to be added are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Willard Springs, south of Flagstaff<\/li>\n<li>A couple sites near Wupatki National Monument, northeast of Flagstaff<\/li>\n<li>A site northwest of Flagstaff<\/li>\n<li>A couple urban sites, one of which will be Buffalo Park<\/li>\n<li>And hopefully some of the Saguaro Astronomy Club sites along the Rim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may notice that Cinder Hills Overlook isn&#8217;t on that list. After some research, I&#8217;ve noted that it&#8217;s actually inside the Sunset Crater National Monument boundary by a couple hundred yards. So I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s a good idea to publicize it that way. As other sites come to my attention, and I&#8217;m able to shoot panoramic photos and gather info on them, I&#8217;ll add them to the list. If you have visited Anderson Mesa (or any of the other sites I end up adding) and you have any comments about your observing experience there, let me know. I&#8217;ll be adding comments from other observers to each observing site page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona Observing Sites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/northern_arizon\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":0},"title":"Northern Arizona Observing Sites","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Anderson Mesa Cinder Hills Overlook Willard Springs Updated February 11, 2010","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/northern_arizon\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/anderson_mesa\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":1},"title":"Anderson Mesa","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Anderson Mesa","rel":"","context":"With 12 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 12 comments","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/anderson_mesa\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":461,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/03\/04\/a_few_of_google\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":2},"title":"A Few of Google&#8217;s Favorite Words","author":"jperez1690","date":"March 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"a few of google's favorite words","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":474,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/05\/17\/observing_at_an\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":3},"title":"Observing at Anderson Mesa &#8211; MAY 16\/17, 2009","author":"jperez1690","date":"May 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"20090516","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Observing Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Observing Report","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/observing-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":396,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/03\/09\/willard_springs\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":4},"title":"Willard Springs Road Observing Site","author":"jperez1690","date":"March 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Willard Springs Road Observing Site","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":441,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/11\/15\/hall_dome_at_an\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":5},"title":"Hall Dome at Anderson Mesa","author":"jperez1690","date":"November 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hall Dome at Anderson Mesa","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astro Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astro Photography","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/astro-photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}