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CARMA Radio Telescope Open House

CARMA Radio Telescope Open House

Start of the Tour: James Explains the Mission of CARMA

Start of the Tour: The CalTech Post-Grad Explains the Observer Software & Projects

Start of the Tour: Dave (?) Explains the Million Dollar "Digital Camera"

Walking out to the CARMA "B" Array

The CARMA Open House: The CalTech Radio Telescopes & Transporter

CARMA Open House

Mom and the Telescope Transporter

Detail of the Transporter

Truly Lovely CalTech Radio Telescope and Sun

The CARMA CalTech Radio Telescopes

The CARMA UC Berkeley Radio Telescopes

Radio Telescope Dish

CARMA Backsides

Nice Telescopes All In An Array

Mom in the Control Room of One of the UC Berkeley Telescopes

The Cyrogenics Pump that Cools the Receiver Chip to 4 Degrees Kelvin

All photos taken at the CARMA Radio Telescope Array by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95 camera phone.

Sat. 06.14.08 - The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) Radio Telescopes (aka The Ears) in the White Mountains had their annual Open House today. My Mom and I have been wanting to go to The Ears' open house for a couple of years now and today it worked out.

It was a blast. I love all things astronomy and this radio telescope array up at 7,000 ft plus was a true delight, both from the scientific curiosity perspective and then it was just aesthetically lovely perspective. A real treat.

by Ms. Jen Moblogs on Sat June 14, 2008 9:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | nature + environment , oh, california , photos + text from the road

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millimeter array

Radio Astronomy

Radio Telescopes

Telescopes

UC Berkely

University of Maryland

2 Comments

wordridden.com

said:

Ooh, I'm jealous - I love all things astronomical as well. Your pictures are lovely!

June 20, 2008 1:47 AM

Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen

said:

Hi Jessica,

It was very cool. Next time you are in California, you should go to the private tour!

smiles, jen ;o)

June 20, 2008 9:55 AM

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