Anderson Mesa Station
72-inch Perkins spied as you come up the stairs.
72-inch Perkins.
42-inch Hall
42-inch Hall getting a peak of the day-light.
Naval Observatory Interferometer. These facilities are hard to appreciate in photographs from the ground from the sheer size. Needless to say, the engineering and science involved in making this happen is beyond awesome. To put this facility into perspective, its working angular resolution devolves into a single-pixel on the Hubble space telescope. Let me put it this way. A single pixel from Hubble is where this facility begins.
My telescope attached to the barn-door tracker that my father and I built. There are numerous challenges with this set-up such as keeping it polar-aligned, it nonetheless works as promised and kept the camera and lens pointed on a star-field over long exposures.
New moon and Venus seen in the sky together near sunset.
New Moon
Big Dipper.
