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The Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale houses a fleet of NASA airplanes: Gulfstream III N803NA, Beechcraft Super King Air N7NA, Boeing 747SP N747NA Stratospheric Observatory For Infra-red Astronomy (SOFIA), Douglas DC-8-72 N817NA, Lockheed ER-2 N809NA, and Boeing 747-SCA N911NA Shuttl...
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The Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale houses a fleet of NASA airplanes: Gulfstream III N803NA, Beechcraft Super King Air N7NA, Boeing 747SP N747NA Stratospheric Observatory For Infra-red Astronomy (SOFIA), Dpig;as DC-8-72 N817NA, Lockheed ER-2 N809NA, and Boeing 747-SCA N911NA Shuttl...
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NASA's 747SP N747NA, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infra-red Astronomy (SOFIA) is housed in the newly dedicated Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility. An infra-red telescope will look out through the large opening of the fuselage. The 747SP will carry the telescope above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere to p...
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One of the most spectacular views in Death Valley National Park, one can see over two miles of vertical relief, from Badwater, near the bottom of the image, 282 feet below sea level, to Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, 11043 feet above sea level. I'm really disappointed that this one ended up affected by the R...
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Atop the 14,000-ft summit of Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea are some of the world's largest telescopes for optical, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy. From left to right, the observatories and telescopes in this panorama are identified as follows. The silver 'golf ball' dome of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory ...
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Telesope 2 at VERITAS base camp, Amado, Arizona. Several mirrors removed for cleaning and re-coating.
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This is a 360° panorama composed of 901 21.2 megapixel images from the summit of Mauna Kea. Translated from Hawaiian, Mauna Kea means "White Mountain". Although this was taken in early December 2010, there had yet been any significant accumulation of snow. At it's summit, the air is 40% less dense that at sea level. C...
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Ths is an 8-shot handheld panorama looking SSW from near the summit of Mauna Kea. It was taken in December 2008. There are several telescopes visible in this image; from left to right they are: California Institute of Technology 10.4m Submillimeter Telescope (CSO) James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Submillimeter Array Su...
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StellarVue Hand-Crafted Telescopes 11820 Kemper rd. Auburn, California 95603 (530) 823-7796
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Another view of the Pampa Amarilla and a few of the 1600 surface detector tanks (white cylinders) that comprise the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO), from Los Leones which is a fluorescence detector up on a hill. PAO covers 3,000 square kilometers, and area the size of the state of Rhode Island, five times the size of Pa...
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