Hawai'i - IRTF Observing Run plus Pearl Harbor

12-16 Feb 2001


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Background

In February 2001, I tagged along on Josh Emery's observing run at the IRTF. While there, I did some hiking around Mauna Kea. Before flying by to the mainland, we stopped by the USS Arizona memorial and the USS Missouri.


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Date: 13 Feb 2001 View of Hale Pokahu (dorms for observers).
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 A plant growing on (no longer molten) lava.
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 Fog bank moving in.
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 Edge of a lava channel.
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 Another plant.
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 Bird tracks.
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Date: 13 Feb 2001 View of Hale Pohaku.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 On top of Mauna Kea. Dusk view of the IRTF.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 One of the Keck domes in the foreground and the Suburu facility in the background. Notice the clouds below.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 Just after sunset. Mauna Kea is extremely photogenic.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 Another view of Keck and Suburu.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 Ditto, with both Keck domes.
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Date: 14 Feb 2001 Ditto, with one Keck dome.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Eye level with passing clouds west of Hale......
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Self-portrait.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Clouds passing over the saddle. Mauna Loa in background.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 View up Mauna Kea.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Mauna Kea cinder cones.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Keck and Suburu domes.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Keck over the clouds.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 More observatories.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Mauna Loa in the background. A snow-covered Mauna Kea in the foreground.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 The Keck.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 The IRTF.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Solar energy absorbed by the rock has melted the snow in the immediate facility.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Summit cinder cones.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 The shadow of Mauna Kea projected against the sky at sunset.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 The shadow of Mauna Kea projected against the sky at sunset.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 Astronomer and telescope. Josh Emery looks at the Keck dome.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 The Keck dome... again.
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Date: 15 Feb 2001 More summit sunset shots.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 View across Pearl Harbor. USS Missouri on the left, USS Arizona Memorial right of center.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Ditto.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Sailing out to the resting place of the USS Arizona.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 View from the memorial of the USS Missouri.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 The USS Arizona still leaks fuel oil.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Ocean critters have found a home on the wreck.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 One of the USS Arizona's gun emplacements.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Me, looking like a tourist.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Swordfish, a WWII era submarine.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 View of the USS Arizona Memorial from the USS Missouri.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Mighty Mo guns.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 Mighty Mo superstructure.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 I'm not sure if these vending machines were present on the USS Missouri during the signing of Japanese surrender agreement.
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Date: 16 Feb 2001 View from the bridge of the Mighty Mo.
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Author: Peter Lanagan (planagan@lpl.arizona.edu)
Last updated: 28 Oct 2003