Someone is getting lucky and the laser is getting hot
from the Hotel Mauna Kea folks
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Nice visuals.
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Looking at telescopes from a long way away.
Mauna Kea, as seen from Haleakala. If you click for the full size view, the observatory is just visible.
Maui, Hawaii
30 October 2005
1/500 sec @ f/9.5; Pentax *ist DS; 150mm focal length, cropped.
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Mauna Kea from space taken April 2009. Image courtesy of the NASA EO.
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I had no idea what "Cassegrain" was until I looked it up. Seems there's a winery by that name someplace in Oz.
Now it makes more sense...! ;-)
Sure you did. There's a picture of it, right there!