A Distant Mirror
Unmanned spaceflight still means a lot of flying
March 10, 2009Earth Day occultation of Venus
April 22, 2009
While at the Hilton attached to the convention center in downtown San Jose, California, I saw a distant view of the Lick Observatory on snow-covered Mt. Hamilton (23 March 2009).
Lick Observatory from San Jose
The leftmost dome is the Shane 3 meter, while the rightmost dome is the 0.9 meter refractor.
Of course if one can see Lick from San Jose, the city is also visible from the mountain, and light pollution is a real problem.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
