CHEWS RIDGE
OBSERVATORY
These are views of the 30 inch newtonian located at our Chews Ridge Observatory. It is approximately 30 miles southeast of Monterey in the mountains at an elevation of 4,000 feet. The skies are very dark and still. As noted earlier, however, due to the fact that we do not own this land, it was decided to move to the Mercey Hot Sprinsg area, about 50 miles east.
(The telescope was designed and personally built by Lee Hoglan. It is made out of aluminum, with a rotating turret for the eyepiece. The Chews Ridge Observatory has performed well over the past 20 years.)
(Rodney ponders the mysteries of the universe.)
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Rotation of the telescope is easy on the fork mount.
