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Photographs of the CHARA Array 1998-1999
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Photographs of the CHARA Array taken on 17 December 1998
Photographs by Peter Lawson
These photos show the pedastles for the telescopes and the supports for the
light pipes.
- Photograph showing the
eastern most telescope support
(93 Kb).
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Photograph looking down the western arm of the array
(136 Kb)
showing the telescope pedastle for
telescope W2 in the foreground (with a ladder leaning against it), a line of
poles to be used as light-pipe supports, and the pedastle of telescope W1 in
the distance. The telecommunications towers on Mount Wilson are also clearly
in view.
- Two stereo pairs looking back up the western arm of the array
(first set
136 Kb
and
second set
144 Kb)
looking up the western arm of the array.
Photographs of the Installation of Telescope Domes on 22 January 1999
Photographs courtesy of Theo ten Brummelaar
- Photo 1.
Helicopter with Dome
(17 Kb).
- Photo 2.
Lowering Dome onto E2 telescope mount
(49 Kb).
- Photo 3.
South 2 Telescope Housing in Place. Theo ten Brummelaar in the
foreground
(51 Kb).
More photographs at the Mount Wilson Observatory Science Site:
Editor's note: The politically correct word is place not drop.
Photographs at the CHARA Array on 23 February 1999
Photographs courtesy of Gerard van Belle.
Each photograph is 72 to 120 Kb in size.
- East 2 Telescope Housing:
Photo 1 and
Photo 2.
- South 2 Telescope Housing.
- Inside South 2 Telescope Housing.
- Inside the Mark III.
- Details of CHARA delay lines:
Photo 1,
Photo 2,
Photo 3,
Photo 4,
Photo 5,
Photo 6,
Photo 7,
Photo 8,
Photo 9,
Photo 10, and
Photo 11.
- Theo ten Brummelaar at work:
Photo 1 and
Photo 2.
Photographs of Mount Wilson in the Snow, April 1999
Photographs courtesy of Prof. H.A. McAlister.
Each photograph is 140 to 180 Kb in size.
- Views of Los Angeles from the Kapteyn Cottage:
Snow5.jpg and
Snow6.jpg
- Nils Turner's Station Wagon outside the CHARA delay line building (in the parking lot of the 100 inch telescope):
Snow10.jpg.
- Snow on the road
Snow7.jpg.
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Last Updated 14 April 1999