Why I can not see LIGO in google earth?

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Can not found LIGO Livingston at 30.56'N 90.77'W,can not see the arm of LIGO in Hanford, Anyone got the imgae of LIGO in google earth?

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Why I can not see LIGO in google earth?

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Can not found LIGO Livingston at 30.56'N 90.77'W,can not see the arm of LIGO in Hanford, Anyone got the imgae of LIGO in google earth?


Hanford's at 46 degrees 27'15.21"N, and 119 degrees 24'26.20" W
Livingstone's at 30 degrees 33'44.89"N, and 90 degrees 46'29.16" W
These are the corner stations.
Cheers, Mike.

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Great!! Thanks

Great!!
Thanks

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hmm. ok, i havent had google

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hmm. ok, i havent had google earth for long.. and i dont mean to hijack the thread. but this is a little relavant.. how on earth do you search by cords in google earth? i wouldnt mind looking this up myself...

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RE: hmm. ok, i havent had

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hmm. ok, i havent had google earth for long.. and i dont mean to hijack the thread. but this is a little relavant.. how on earth do you search by cords in google earth? i wouldnt mind looking this up myself...


I don't think you can, at least not with the ( free ) version that I use. It displays the co-ords as an output, but not as an input. I just scan and slide around by dead reackoning. I figured the 4km long arms at right angles would show up fairly readily.
I found my own house the other week. We could fairly well date the photo from the stage of autumn changes in our trees - as we have about 30 deciduous varieties.
A neighbour in our block was prosecuted by the local authority for cutting down a protected species tree ( this was revealed as part of a larger kerfuffle ). The bylaws officers used a commercial version of Google Earth to decide the timing of that ( the mapping involves date stamps ) with respect to other events. Also as the shire council issues permits for and then inspects various building events, one can correlate presence/absence findings on the satellite view with recorded events in the paper trails. This actually has teeth in whatever forum such matters are decided in. Whew!
Cheers, Mike.

(edit) I've found that you can enable a 'Lat/Lon grid' under the 'View' menu ( or Ctrl + L ). This divides more finely as you zoom in.

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I typed, 30.56-90.77 (exactly

I typed, 30.56-90.77 (exactly like that)in the search bar, top left corner, clicked search (to the right) and it went straight to it. Free version.

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RE: I typed, 30.56-90.77

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I typed, 30.56-90.77 (exactly like that)in the search bar, top left corner, clicked search (to the right) and it went straight to it. Free version.


Cool! Sounds like you Read The Fine Manual....:-)
That makes:
Hanford "46.455-119.4072"
Livingstone "30.5656-90.7751"
Which drop real close to the corner stations.
Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: RE: I typed,

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Quote:
I typed, 30.56-90.77 (exactly like that)in the search bar, top left corner, clicked search (to the right) and it went straight to it. Free version.

Cool! Sounds like you Read The Fine Manual....:-)
That makes:
Hanford "46.455-119.4072"
Livingstone "30.5656-90.7751"
Which drop real close to the corner stations.
Cheers, Mike.

cool. thanks yall.

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Alexander W. Janssen
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What i'm missing is the GEO

What i'm missing is the GEO 600 location... :-)
Go and find it at:
52°14'42.62"N 9°48'25.81"E

It's a bit hard to spot, left arm goes to NWN, right arm to ENE.

Happy earth-spotting,
Alex.

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millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.

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