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Feb. 11th, 2004 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hugmeafter I got up (late) I went by lowel observatory. they don't open until noon... sigh... so I went back to flagsworth and got some lunch at a chinese place that had really good pork. then I went back to lowell at noon. all of the people, even the person behind the cash register is an astronamer!! Kelly (the girl behind the register) set up a telescope with a helium filter on it so that we could look at the sun, There were 2 sun spots the size of the earth and a "progression" (I think it's called... someone help me out here? melon?) which is a giant flare that has been arced back into the sun by it's own gravity... very pretty!!
Then I went on the tour of the observatory... it was amazing!! the first one was built in 1894, it's still standing with the origonal scope in it and is still used at least twice a week... there is so much to tell about that scope... the next scope was a photography scope and was the one built just to find pluto. very interesting stuff pluto was. this is the big red scope in the pictures. you will notice the boxing glove... that is because in the 40's one of the astronamers knocked himself uncontions from the the beam this glove is on. just damn...
Melon... things to look up, hopefully they are spelled correctly
sofia "stratosphieric obervatory for infared astronamy"
this idea is fucked up in so many ways... you will understand when you see it... I don't know how they think they are going to get it to work
ioneos "lowell observatory near earth object search"
I don't remember why I wrote this one down but it was something specific
kepler mission
there are some really good pictures... the shots of the solar panels are not solar panels... there is a picture with the sign of what they actually do, I didn't have time to read it on the tour so I got a picture to read it later (the best way to take notes) There is a picture of the slide rule used to find pluto in there too... it's a round thing with grooves, doesn't even look like a slide rule...
I left lowel and headed out to the grand canyon... it was a big hole in the ground, I got lots of pictures... it was impressive until I REALLY started to think about it... it took millions of years to make this thing... I just came from metor crator, not as impressive but it only took 11 seconds to make...
the canyon was still just breathtaking... I am very glad I made the trip out to see it...
I was walking along the canyon rim and saw all kinds of foot prints in the snow... one set was strangly close together and small, I figured it was a kid... then I look into the snow at the bottom of the print and realised it was no kid, it was a bear... a BIG bear and he had been through just recently... I laughed at myself and kept waking. I love the vegitation at hights like this, the trees grow in such interesting patterns...
I decided to stay until sunset so I could watch it go down over the canyon...
on the trip back to town I noticed it was a clear night so I pulled over in the middle of the desert and looked up I didn't even need the binoculars to see the orion nebula... the milky way was so clear... it was like a white glittered ribbon across the sky, I could even pull a distinct edge from it... this is what I came to see...
I got hold of my uncles and will be heading over to their place tomorrow morning early, tonight I am staying in another hotel, I fould one that is only $25 with tax!!
heh, I paid that much to see the canyon...
see the new pictures: http://www.hugme.org/trip/10
(still uploading will be up soon)
Then I went on the tour of the observatory... it was amazing!! the first one was built in 1894, it's still standing with the origonal scope in it and is still used at least twice a week... there is so much to tell about that scope... the next scope was a photography scope and was the one built just to find pluto. very interesting stuff pluto was. this is the big red scope in the pictures. you will notice the boxing glove... that is because in the 40's one of the astronamers knocked himself uncontions from the the beam this glove is on. just damn...
Melon... things to look up, hopefully they are spelled correctly
sofia "stratosphieric obervatory for infared astronamy"
this idea is fucked up in so many ways... you will understand when you see it... I don't know how they think they are going to get it to work
ioneos "lowell observatory near earth object search"
I don't remember why I wrote this one down but it was something specific
kepler mission
there are some really good pictures... the shots of the solar panels are not solar panels... there is a picture with the sign of what they actually do, I didn't have time to read it on the tour so I got a picture to read it later (the best way to take notes) There is a picture of the slide rule used to find pluto in there too... it's a round thing with grooves, doesn't even look like a slide rule...
I left lowel and headed out to the grand canyon... it was a big hole in the ground, I got lots of pictures... it was impressive until I REALLY started to think about it... it took millions of years to make this thing... I just came from metor crator, not as impressive but it only took 11 seconds to make...
the canyon was still just breathtaking... I am very glad I made the trip out to see it...
I was walking along the canyon rim and saw all kinds of foot prints in the snow... one set was strangly close together and small, I figured it was a kid... then I look into the snow at the bottom of the print and realised it was no kid, it was a bear... a BIG bear and he had been through just recently... I laughed at myself and kept waking. I love the vegitation at hights like this, the trees grow in such interesting patterns...
I decided to stay until sunset so I could watch it go down over the canyon...
on the trip back to town I noticed it was a clear night so I pulled over in the middle of the desert and looked up I didn't even need the binoculars to see the orion nebula... the milky way was so clear... it was like a white glittered ribbon across the sky, I could even pull a distinct edge from it... this is what I came to see...
I got hold of my uncles and will be heading over to their place tomorrow morning early, tonight I am staying in another hotel, I fould one that is only $25 with tax!!
heh, I paid that much to see the canyon...
see the new pictures: http://www.hugme.org/trip/10
(still uploading will be up soon)
