[Leica] Stargazing two ways
Ken Carney
kcarney1 at cox.net
Wed Oct 21 18:09:34 PDT 2015
Hmmm...maybe they noticed something? Did you see any cars delivering
champagne? Anyway, very nice photo. It and White Sands are on our
list, maybe this January.
Ken
On 10/21/2015 5:58 PM, Aram Langhans 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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> would ever have dared dream." James D. Watson
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