[Leica] Stargazing two ways

[Peter Klein]

Impressive.  You need lots of capture area to get a usable signal to noise
ratio, and this place has got it!
-Peter

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just outside Socorro, New Mexico, is the Very Large Array.  We were lucky
> that they were in the "D" configuration.  That means the 27 radiotelescopes
> were bunched close together around the visitors center.  This is when they
> are looking for lower resolution overall structure images.  The "A"
> configuration is when they are spread out with  each arm being 13 miles.
> You would get to see very few of them close enough to the visitors center
> to
> photograph.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/nm/VLA-6679.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/nebeeo5
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/nm/VLA-6682.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/peppnvq
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> More info:  http://www.vla.nrao.edu/
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> And just down the road is a nice campground, where I found a couple from
> Switzerland enjoying the stars by a campfire.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/nm/Datil+Wells+Campground-6709-Edi
> t.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/q3j9fan
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> Comments welcome.
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> Aram
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> Aram Langhans
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> (Semi) Retired  Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
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> "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
> would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
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