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Old February 2nd 06, 05:11 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Pascal,

Please send me the latitude and longitude of your present and proposed
site.

Dan

pascal wrote:

Dan,

You seem to have studied thouroughly the subject. I leave near Geneva ,
switzerland and Geneva is in a hole surrounded by 2 chains of mountains
about 1200-1600m high, one of them is the "Jura" from which originates
the word "jurassic". During high pressure phases in winter (like now)
it is totally under a stratus which culminates at about 900m and even
when the sky is clear I always suspected that it would be clearer at
1200m since an astronomy club meets up there. I guess I will join them
and check out.

Thanks.

Pascal.