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Snow??!! Not quite. A twilight pictue of White Sands State Park in NM.
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The National Radio Astronomy 12m millimeter wave telescope on Kitt Peak,
AZ, with the Tucson 25m Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) antenna
in the background.
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The Owens Valley Millimeter Array (OVRO) near in
the Owens Valley near Big Pine, CA, operated by the California
Institute of Technology.
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One arm (9 antennas) of the Very Large Array (VLA)
operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on the Plains
of San Augustin near Socorro, NM.
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The VLA at dawn.
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The telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ,
where Percival Lowell recorded what he thought were canals on Mars.
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The 64 m diameter radio telescope near Parkes, Australia.
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The 2.2 m telescope dome and others looking east
at the German-Spanish Observatory on Calar Alto, Spain.
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The 3.5 m telescope (the largest on continental Europe)
at the German-Spanish Observatory on Calar Alto, Spain.
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The University of Minnesota/UC San Diego 1.5 m telescope on
Mt Lemmon, near Tucson AZ.
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A view of the mountaintop looking west from the 2.1 m catwalk
at the Kitt Peak National Observatory west of Tucson, AZ.
The 4 m Mayall dome dominates the landscape and is visible
on a clear day from Mt. Lemmon, 70 miles to the northeast.
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A view of the Kitt Peak mountaintop at dawn looking east
from a most unusual vantage point.
The 2.1m and 3.5m WIYN domes are
the most prominent features on the far side of the mountaintop.
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The mountaintop at the Cerror Tololo InterAmerican Observatory in Chile.
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Observing with the giant 0.08 m telescope at Cerro Tololo.
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Chip with graduate student Rocky Rhodes at the business end of the CTIO
4m telescope.
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In the Keck II telescope, on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Can you find the author on the platform on the right?
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The summit at Mauna Kea, including the twin keck telescope,
the Subaru telescope at left, and NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility
(IRTF) at right.
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