{"id":209,"date":"2010-10-18T19:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/blogs\/astronoblog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-10-18T19:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:51:22","slug":"kitt-peak-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/2010\/10\/18\/kitt-peak-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitt Peak, in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, Tonima said <\/em>pretty much everything about our part of the trip! I guess that leaves me to show<\/em> you how it went.<\/p>\n\n

Picture # \/ Description:<\/p>\n

1) Scott and Tonima, well rested and ready to head up the mountain!<\/p>\n

2) Welcome to Kitt Peak!<\/p>\n

3) Can you guess why it might be a problem to drive on a curvy mountain road without headlights (so as to not disturb image taking)?<\/p>\n

4) Land of Domes! Taken from our ridge, looking onto the next ridge.<\/p>\n

5) The WIYN 0.9m Telescope! Notice the louvers to help control the conditions inside the dome.<\/p>\n

6) The McMath Solar Observatory. What you see is in fact only 40% of the telescope, the rest is underground!<\/p>\n

7) They’re not kidding. The group who was observing the night we arrived, John and Scott from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN showed us a video of them attempting to drown a scorpion back down the drain.\u00a0 Needless to say, we kept those drain covers particularly tight and checked our shoes before putting them on each morning.<\/p>\n

8) Looking out towards the Mexico border, only 60 miles away.<\/p>\n

9) The telescope. Big enough that Tonima needed a bit of help to get the mirror cover off, even standing on the ladder.<\/p>\n

10) The Steward Observatory, operated by Arizona University. The most recognizable object on the mountain.<\/p>\n

11) The VLBA radio telescope on Kitt Peak.\u00a0 This telescope works in parallel with 9 other arrays across the country, from Hawaii to Connecticut to the Virgin Islands, forming an effective array size of 5000 miles!<\/p>\n

12) More friends that lived at the house.<\/p>\n

13) The sun arises after a long night of observing, as we drive back to Tucson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, Tonima said pretty much everything about our part of the trip! I guess that leaves me to show you how it went. Picture # \/ Description: 1) Scott and Tonima, well rested and ready to head up the mountain! 2) Welcome to Kitt Peak! 3) Can you guess why it might be a problem … Continue reading “Kitt Peak, in Pictures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}