Hi,
Adam and I are on our astronomy tour of the South Western areas of USA, with the wives permission, and we thought we would post some of our adventures. It is a great opportunity that we are relishing with every moment.
Start of our tour
Our first two stars in Las Vegas J
Bellagio fountain show
Hoover dam
Chopper flight over Grand Canyon
Adam checking out potential dome sites
Magnificent place
Clark telescope Percival Lowell used to study Mars and Buzz Aldrin used to prepare for the Moon landing
Huge refractor
Viewing night M15
Which was the focus knob?
Astrograph used by Claude Tombaugh to discover Pluto
Astronomy B&B in Flagstaff 90mm Coronado – unbelievable
Meteor Crater
Hummingbird – Did not realise how small these things are
Titan Missile Museum – Tucson, Arizona
Kitt Peak - Solar telescope
Inside Solar telescope
3.2m Wynn Telescope
Actuators on Wynn scope
Kitt Peak
Inside the hollow pier of 4.2m scope – echoes like you would not believe
4.2m with Adam and flat field (top left – I did not know they had to do flats
RCOS 16 with 140mm for viewing evening Kitt Peak
Pima air and space museum – B29
Blackbird SR – 71
Mark caving
Preparing 2nd 8.4m mirror for Large Magellan Scope at Uni of Arizona Mirror Lab
Polishing first 8.4m mirror
Turning 6.4m mirror
More to come, if we are not banned, as tomorrow night we are imaging with Adam Block using his 32 inch ion milled RCOS JJJJJJJJJJJJ
