Thanks for the honors! I didn't realize I was plowing new ground.
It is my impression that the trifinium falls at the exact peak, which is to the
right of the crater in the pictures. I have some map resources and will try to
find something definitive.
According to the web site, the view is from the north--from Altzomoni, one of
the several peaks of Ixtaccíhuatl. Having been to Tlamacas on the north slope
of Popocatépetl, I recognize it as such. Also, careful observation of the
lighting in the morning and evening will prove this. This means that the left
slope is in Puebla, the right slope is in México, and the narrow tongue of
Morelos extends up the opposite side of the volcano from the right.
The light in the erupting image is the illumination of the plume and clouds by
the rising sun from the left.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "acroorca2002" <
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To: <
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Mexican state trifinium web cam
staggering hit lowell & well timed too
& yikes our first bp multifirst as well
with all parts as previously dreamt sought &or requested here
first mexican tristate point
first tripoint webcam
& first actually erupting tripoint volcano
yikes perhaps even our first molten visit anywhere
albeit not our first or politically greatest tripoint volcano
& probably not yet our first erupting tripoint
tho that may have been too hot a hot spot to hope for anyway
for it appears from the best available tho still inadequate map
http://tinyurl.com/htf2
that your trifinium may well fall at the exact peak
as i think would tend to be the case with all mountains anyway
& thus in the present case seemingly on the sw edge of the cone
rather than within the cone or anywhere else
so whether the bright area in your pic is the rising sun or the
rising magma
there is a good chance you have mexico state on the left horizon
& puebla state on the right horizon
with the northeast sliver of morelos state slashing upwards to
the peak from the right foreground
& pending better data
that makes it a still speculative but quite probable class d visit
focussed at the visible summit just to the right of the smokestack
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> You will find at
> www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/UltimaImagenVolcan2.html
> a web cam view of the trifinium between the Mexican states of
México, Morelos,
> and Puebla.
>
> If the image is black when you look, it's because it is night. If
the image is
> gray, it is because of clouds. As I post this, the image is
exceptionally
> clear. When Popocatépetl erupts, this can be a very interesting
web cam.
> Attached is an image I saved in 2000.
>
> "CENAPRED" is the National Center for the Prevention of
Disasters.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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