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| Road to Kitt Peak National Observatory |
Morning Twilight |
Coude Feed Telescope |
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| 4m dome |
Me in the Coude Feed Spectrograph collimator |
Mural on 4m mirror model |
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| Just one of the many parts of the Coude Feed Spectrograph. |
Control Panel for the Coude Feed Telescope |
Dewar for the Coude Feed. |
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| On top of the world, with the 4m in the palm of my hand |
Coude "B" grating and the reflection of an astronomer |
Solar Telescope |
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| 4m dome |
Me in the Coude Feed control room |
Part of the sundial at the visitor's center. |
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| Me in the Coude Feed control room centering a star on the slit |
Me in the Coude Feed control room |
The Solar Telescope visitors center and my reflection |
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| Can't get enough of that view! |
WIYN 0.9m telescope |
Filling the 0.9m dewar |
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| Me in the WIYN 0.9m control room |
Me in the WIYN 0.9m control room |
Just before the storm |
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| Bench Spectrograph at WIYN w/ Echelle grating |
A peek inside Hydra |
The screen inside Hydra |
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| The plate, fibers, and buttons of Hydra. The gripper had dropped a button and the fiber was crossing over several other fibers. |
A fiber and button from Hydra |
A gorgeous sky at sunset. It looked purple to me, too bad this doesn't. |
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| WIYN Observatory |
WIYN Control room. I was observing with WHIRC. |
WHIRC dewar, and the eyepiece. I got to see Saturn through it! |
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| WHIRC dewar at the WIYN port. |
WIYN 3.5-m, at least what I could capture in one frame. |
WIYN |
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| Me just moments before my camera was blown off the car by the strong winds. |
One great skyline. |
A millimeter telescope. |
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| How many pictures of WIYN do I need? Why are all big telescopes blue? |