Checking out the moon an the small portable telescopes. |
This one was a bit bigger and we were checking out the Orion Nebula. |
Jennifer Showing use some of the history of Astronomy. |
This was a replica of Galileo's First telescope. Not to impressing by today's
standards |
Cool pic from the Hubble Telescope showing the Northern landscape of
Mars. |
Current project under way called NEOSAT. They take times images of the
night sky, compare subsequent images and cancel out all the non moving
objects like stars. Then you're left with the comets and stuff. |
Main Control room for the Large Telescopes. |
Checking out some for the cool programs. |
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Moving the larges telescope. |
Getting shut down for the night. Cover the mirrors etc. |
The proposed satellite that will be used to do the NEOSAT imaging from
above the atmosphere. About $16m project including a low budget East
Indian Rocket launch into the polar orbit. |