Sandia View Observatory, MPC# H03

 

SVO is located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico a suburb of Albuquerque at an elevation of 1600 meters. The skies are not that bad from my backyard observatory, about magnitude 5-6 unless looking due South above the city lights. My main interest is astrometry at the moment but I would like to get into asteroid photometry shortly if I upgrade to a 0.30m telescope.

 

New picture:

M3 Globular Cluster. Track and stack of 10 60 sec exposures.

 

The weather right now over AZ and NM...