TEXES Observing Run at NASA's Infrared Telescope in Hawaii
October 2000



 
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NASA's Infrared Telescope
Facility (IRTF)
 


The neighbors:
Keck I and II (10m)
and Suburu (8m)
 


Suburu on the left,
Keck on the right
 


Mauna Kea's Summit
Ridge with (from left)
Canada-France-Hawaii
(3m), Gemini (8m), and
Univ.of Hawaii 88 inch
 


More summit ridge
showing Gemini, UH 88,
United Kingdom IR
Telescope (3.6m),
and a UH 24 inch
 


Sub-millimeter valley
with the CSO (left)
and JCMT
 


Hoisting TEXES
to the platform
 


More hoisting
 


An airborne instrument
 


Outside the IRTF
(noon, Oct 26)
 


Not all Hawaii
is a beach
 


14,000 feet
and loving it
 


A view down to the
Kohala Coast
 


John pumping out
the dewar
 


The IRTF after a snowfall
 


Bad weather leads to
visiting astronomers
 


Snow on the jeep
 


Suburu and the Kecks
in the snow
 


Suburu and a Keck
in the snow
 


The summit ridge in snow
 


Further down the summit
ridge, still in snow
 


Sub-mm valley
full of snow
 


Looking up toward the
summit ridge
 


Looking over sub-mm valley
toward Suburu, Kecks, and
the IRTF
 


Looking down on Hale
Pohaku; Mauna Kea's
base camp
 


the HP dorms
 


The dining hall
 


Halloween at the IRTF
 


The mystery astronomer
 


Bill, one of the telescope
operators, at the controls
 


TEXES on the telescope
 


The IRTF 3m mirror
(covered) big one