Monday: woke up to temps in the 20’s! we are use to the 60’s! What the heck.. Since we only have 40 miles to go today it was a lazy start to the day. We were heading to the KOA in Flagstaff but stopped short and ended up at Black Barts RV park and steakhouse.
we went into to town for lunch then off to the Lowell’s Observatory
we got to look through the solar telescope
the Clarks Telescope is being renovated so was not in the building
this is the telescope that found Pluto
we had a very good tour guide and although a bit windy it was a beautiful day
of course we had to do a bit of birding seen a Lewis’ Woodpecker (new) and some snipes
we went back to Lowell’s Obs. about 8:00pm to see the night sky. Although it was a bit cold and very windy there were a lot of people there standing in line to look through the telescopes. We got to see the Orion nebulous, Jupiter and 3 moons and Mars. great place to spend the day and night.
The Whirlpool Galaxy
I suspect we could spend a few days here but…..
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