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  • Adirondacks seen as dark skygazer paradise

    01/29/2006 5:23:37 PM PST · by neverdem · 23 replies · 861+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | January 28, 2006 | MICHAEL VIRTANEN
    ASSOCIATED PRESS TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. -- High altitude, low population and little light pollution make the Adirondacks a stargazer's dream location. Look up from New York's northern forest and with the naked eye watch a cascade of stars. With a good telescope, see the rings of Saturn in color. Subzero winter nights are particularly good, with low humidity and clear, magnified skies, amateur astronomer Mark Staves said. That's when he likes to take his telescope outside in Tupper Lake. Staves, fellow amateur astronomer Tim Moeller and other enthusiasts plan to build the first public observatory in New York's northern mountains...