[photos] Launch Pad goes to WIRO

Aug 03, 2008 08:35


Late yesterday afternoon we all hauled out to the Wyoming Infrared Observatory…





Approaching the observatory





Observatory exterior and control room.



Boötes Nu, the observatory cat.








The WIRO telescope, an infrared optimize 92 inch reflecting telescope currently being used for optical surveying.




Instructors Jerry Oltion and Jim Verley




Your author, on a mountaintop, overlooking the kingdoms of the world.





Night vision photography.



David Levine and me by night vision goggles. (We took one another’s photos with my camera.)

As usual, more at the Flickr set.

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