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.
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