Haven't posted in a few days as I went to Borrego Springs, CA USA to star gaze and enjoy the desert (yes, in the heat of the summer). Home now and have decided to share these strange sculptures found all around Borrego Springs and a bit about the area. It's a small town surrounded entirely by the Anza-Borrego State Park. The park happens to be the largest state park in California at 600,000 acres of pure desert. While in Borrego Springs, we met a with a tour guide who hosted an informative star gazing tour with a high powered telescope in the middle of the desert. It was amazing and the first time I've seen the rings of Saturn (and many other things) with my own eyes. It was also the first time my children had seen the Milkway's spiral arm in the sky.. it's light in southern California. We are lucky to see more than a few hundred stars on any given night.
The average daily temperature for this month (June) is 103 degrees and the average daily low in December is a comfortable 69 degrees. Borrego Springs is about 55 miles from the massive bright lights of southern California towns such as San Diego and it's California first designated Dark Sky Community. Basically, all outdoor lights are kept to a minimum, must be very low intensity and pointing downward.
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