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| Wed 24 Feb 2016 in Bonn: 50.7364653, 7.1060463 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
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Location
Just in front of the Bonn Opera.
Participants
Expedition
Accordering to the route planner it was 22 km by car to the hash. The position was in the middle of the city of Bonn, just in front of the Bonn Opera, in a street called "Am Boeselagerhof" - which literally means "At the evil storage yard". The hashes seem to lead me to places with similar horrible names like Schreck ("Fright") or Schreckenberg etc. rather often.
A night at the opera
Driving to Bonn was not adventurous at all; parking was. In the center either you may not park or you have to pay for it. With luck I found a place between, only 200 m from the hash. The walk was uneventful, and there were no traffic on the street. Less than 50 m apart was the entrance of the Opera. The hash itself was at the Opera's west wall, on the sidewalk of the street, so could easily walk around to make my photos.
This time I had not my trusty Casio camera along but a very small Jaytech camcorder, the DC530. It is really bad but I wanted to test it again (having not used it for years). I found out that it is very bad in lowlight conditions and has no autofocus but a near/far switch. The switch was on "far" - and because I did not expect a switch for the distance I made all the pictures with this setting. As a result the first two pictures of the GeoDroid app are not as sharp as they could have been. Regarding the lowlight - I had to push the gamma level of the street images to 3.5 or even 4 to make the content visible.
The return
Just for tradition I jogged the short distance back to my car.
Photos
Standard proof
Compass proof
At the side entrance
The main entrance of the opera
View from the hash
