Hawai'i - IRTF Observing Run plus Pearl Harbor
12-16 Feb 2001
Contents
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.
Pictures
![]() | Large version 0079 kB | Full size 4392 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | View of Hale Pokahu (dorms for observers). |
![]() | Large version 0108 kB | Full size 4724 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | A plant growing on (no longer molten) lava. |
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![]() | Large version 0036 kB | Full size 3089 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | Fog bank moving in. |
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![]() | Large version 0109 kB | Full size 4634 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | Edge of a lava channel. |
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![]() | Large version 0071 kB | Full size 4077 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | Another plant. |
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![]() | Large version 0083 kB | Full size 4551 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | Bird tracks. |
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![]() | Large version 0079 kB | Full size 3964 kB | Date: 13 Feb 2001 | View of Hale Pohaku. |
![]() | Large version 0039 kB | Full size 4071 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | On top of Mauna Kea. Dusk view of the IRTF. |
![]() | Large version 0032 kB | Full size 3040 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | One of the Keck domes in the foreground and the Suburu facility in the background. Notice the clouds below. |
![]() | Large version 0027 kB | Full size 3894 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | Just after sunset. Mauna Kea is extremely photogenic. |
![]() | Large version 0029 kB | Full size 4842 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | Another view of Keck and Suburu. |
![]() | Large version 0032 kB | Full size 3910 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | Ditto, with both Keck domes. |
![]() | Large version 0034 kB | Full size 3882 kB | Date: 14 Feb 2001 | Ditto, with one Keck dome. |
![]() | Large version 0052 kB | Full size 4042 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Eye level with passing clouds west of Hale...... |
![]() | Large version 0046 kB | Full size 4036 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Self-portrait. |
![]() | Large version 0051 kB | Full size 3918 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Clouds passing over the saddle. Mauna Loa in background. |
![]() | Large version 0056 kB | Full size 4113 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | View up Mauna Kea. |
![]() | Large version 0046 kB | Full size 3937 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Mauna Kea cinder cones. |
![]() | Large version 0036 kB | Full size 3679 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Keck and Suburu domes. |
![]() | Large version 0038 kB | Full size 3861 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Keck over the clouds. |
![]() | Large version 0040 kB | Full size 3960 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | More observatories. |
![]() | Large version 0046 kB | Full size 3852 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Mauna Loa in the background. A snow-covered Mauna Kea in the foreground. |
![]() | Large version 0044 kB | Full size 3890 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | The Keck. |
![]() | Large version 0063 kB | Full size 4186 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | The IRTF. |
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![]() | Large version 0073 kB | Full size 3881 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Solar energy absorbed by the rock has melted the snow in the immediate facility. |
![]() | Large version 0061 kB | Full size 4098 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Summit cinder cones. |
![]() | Large version 0054 kB | Full size 4125 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | The shadow of Mauna Kea projected against the sky at sunset. |
![]() | Large version 0043 kB | Full size 4056 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | The shadow of Mauna Kea projected against the sky at sunset. |
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![]() | Large version 0035 kB | Full size 3758 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | Astronomer and telescope. Josh Emery looks at the Keck dome. |
![]() | Large version 0032 kB | Full size 3610 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | The Keck dome... again. |
![]() | Large version 0030 kB | Full size 3859 kB | Date: 15 Feb 2001 | More summit sunset shots. |
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![]() | Large version 0050 kB | Full size 4006 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | View across Pearl Harbor. USS Missouri on the left, USS Arizona Memorial right of center. |
![]() | Large version 0051 kB | Full size 4081 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Ditto. |
![]() | Large version 0062 kB | Full size 3905 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Sailing out to the resting place of the USS Arizona. |
![]() | Large version 0061 kB | Full size 4137 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | View from the memorial of the USS Missouri. |
![]() | Large version 0091 kB | Full size 4375 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | The USS Arizona still leaks fuel oil. |
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![]() | Large version 0074 kB | Full size 3856 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | One of the USS Arizona's gun emplacements. |
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![]() | Large version 0000 kB | Full size 4192 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Me, looking like a tourist. |
![]() | Large version 0083 kB | Full size 4560 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Swordfish, a WWII era submarine. |
![]() | Large version 0084 kB | Full size 4340 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | View of the USS Arizona Memorial from the USS Missouri. |
![]() | Large version 0043 kB | Full size 2972 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Mighty Mo guns. |
![]() | Large version 0040 kB | Full size 3929 kB | Date: 16 Feb 2001 | Mighty Mo superstructure. |
![]() | Large version 0067 kB | Full size 4149 kB | 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. |
![]() | Large version 0066 kB | Full size 3801 kB | 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