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Mauna Kea Observatories Tour
A visit to some of the world's most sophisticated astronomical observatories a few days after AstroDay, with Sky and Telescope's Steve O'Meara, Meade Instruments Corporation's Scott Roberts and Terry Takaki, and Astro-photographer extraordinaire Jason Ware.

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A beautiful day on the mountain: Terry, Jason, Steve and Scott posing in front of the twin Keck domes, and Subaru . About to take a tour of the InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), NASA's only ground based telescope for mission support IRTF Summit Foreman Lars Bergknut (master of the mirror, Lord of the Lens, etc) talking about SPEX
Gemini Engineering Administrative Assistant Mike King giving a tour of the Gemini dome Steve taking a rest? No, just getting that perfect angle for a shot of the Gemini Telescope The gang doing a ZZ Top impersonation in the pier, above a placard signifying optical axis at zenith and true north
Inside the Gemini North control room Lunch at 14,000 feet in the summit lunch room. Please don't eat beans here. In front of the true summit of Mauna Kea: Pu'u Wekiu. Note the Hawaiian lele, or alter on the peak of the cinder cone.
In front of the Keck dome, feeling just a tiny bit bit insignificant "Man that secondary is way up there" Inside the Subaru Telescope dome In the Subaru Telescope dome, on the observation floor in front of FOCAS, an optical imager/spectrograph
Terry and Scott standing under Gemini in front of the cassegrain instrument Jason taking a respite, and a bit of oxygen. There is 40% less oxygen up at the summit Scott and Gary experiencing "snow" inside the Subaru dome, during a CO2 snow mirror cleaning session
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