Thanks for the kind words.

I am sorry that the links were not to Meteor Crater slideshows---
parts
1, 2, & 3. At least they gave access to the photographs.

Here is a link to photographs that include one of the U.S. Naval
Observatory from 40 miles SSW on Apache Maid near the lookout tower.
For a map that shows the site in reference to Flagstaff-google
with "Apache Maid" as your search terms.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/flagstaffhikingclub/PC010041.j
pg

On the left horizon is a hill in front of Kendrick Mountain. The
white
dot on the right of the hill is the dome of the 61" about half a
dozen
miles west of Flagstaff.

The photographs I took with the lady friend from our walk across
frozen
Upper Lake Mary show the road going up the mesa to the Lowell
Observatory Dark Sky Site and the U.S. Navy Proto-type Optical
Interferometer. Look at the photograph that shows the peaks rising
above the dam. To the right of the dam you can see the road.

Since I live in a valley that cuts off the sunsets-when there seems
to
be a nice one developing, I scooter most of the way up the road for a
great sunset view. For 360 skies I go to the parking lot for the
Arizona Trail just outside the observatory grounds. A few weeks ago,
I
met the Northern Arizona University Astronomy and Astrobiology Club
setting up telescopes at the parking lot.

At one time there was an open house night for the public to look
through the 42" and 72" telescopes and they let me take pictures of
the
moon and Saturn through the eyepiece.

These remain some of the largest telescopes I have enjoyed-though, I
took my Odessa College astronomy classes to the observatory at Ft.
Davis, Texas to look through a 102".

Instead of going up the steep pavement to the observatory-continue
left
on the forest road about two miles to the Marshall Lake turnoff. This
is a designated (but undeveloped) camping area with great skies close
to the Dark Sky Site.