Observing Run at Kitt Peak 2.3 meter Bok Telescope

On February 1 and 2, 2008, a TU astrophysics major, Mike Richmond and I traveled to Tucson, Arizona for two nights of observing on the Bok Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Here we are in a Steward Observatory lab at the University of Arizona with MAESTRO, an echelle spectrograph for the Multiple Mirror Telescope.
On the road up the mountain...
with the 4-meter telescope in the background.
View east from the "Bok walk", the catwalk of the Bok 2.3-meter telescope.
View of the mountain, including the McMath solar telescope, from the Bok walk.
Another view from the Bok walk with the Space Watch telescope in the foreground and the WIYN telescope in the backgroun.
View of telescopes on the southwest ridge from the Bok walk.
View west from the Bok walk.
View west.
View east.
Mike on the Bok walk.
View of the Bok telescope from the 4-meter.
View of the mountain from the Kitt Peak 2-meter telescope.
Mike at the 2-meter.
View from the 2-meter with the 4-meter telescope in the far background
Mike with the McMath Solar Telescope in the background.
Mike with the prime focus imager we used in the background. It is called 90Prime. Right now, the dewar is being filled with liquid nitrogen.