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Calais
Observatory
NOAA Commemorative Disk
Harold E. Nelson
14 Hill Avenue,
Newport, ME 04953
207-368-5012
harrydeb@roadrunner.com
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| May 19, 2005, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) designated the Calais Observatory
Station of 1857 as site Number 1 in their new Heritage Trail program.
The program honors significant events in NOAA history. The NOAA Heritage
Train will begin in Calais. The National
Geodetic Survey (NGS) is one of the agencies that is under the auspices of
NOAA. The official NOAA dedication, scheduled for July 2 - 3, 2005, was
organized by Richard Auletta of Long Island & Calais. The
commemorative disk is 8 inches in diameter, around 3/4 inch think, and
approximately 25 pounds.. A WQDY article about the May event is located at
http://www.wqdy.fm/archive/2005_05_15_index.html; a Bangor Daily News Article is located at
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113828&z=177. Below are photos from
the May event.
Curt Crow of NGS did a short GPS observation on the disk for position; in mid June, subject to change, Steve Randall of NOAA will properly observe longer GPS observations and place the disk in the Federal Base Network. Any land surveyors doing work with GPS in the area will surely find this site an excellent place to broadcast their Real Time Kinematic signal from, for both Calais and St. Stephen. |
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