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 | 25 minutes of Mauna Kea
Posted on Nov 18, '09 3:40 AM for everyone
" Polaris and star trails over Mauna Kea, with vehicular light trail on the summit access road, and the glow of lights at Hale Pohaku, the mid-level astronomers' lodging facility..."
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 | Mauna Kea VIS volunteers get a rousing 'mahalo'
Posted on Oct 25, '09 12:13 PM for everyone
"The Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station (VIS) volunteer appreciation dinner was held on October 10. The Hilo, Hawaii Tribune-Herald ran an article about it (with a group ph..."
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| Things I Do: Grad Student... Wait, What? Me?
Posted on Jan 27, '09 3:34 AM for everyone
" After graduating from high school with a grade average best described as "almost a B," followed by one inglorious semester at a good state technology university with little in..."
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| A good day for problem-solving.
Posted on Mar 31, '08 5:10 AM for everyone
" I headed to work knowing that I needed to do two things: perform routine, easy cryogenic maintenance on an instrument, and power-cycle a network camera used during remo..."
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 | Things I Do: Where's the Kaboom?
Posted on Jun 14, '07 4:57 PM for everyone
" (Updated 3 April 2009)In my first few years as a telescope operator, I spent many a night snoozing paying rapt attention while scholars of high-energy physics..."
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| The story of Sean O'Neill's trip to Hawaii
Posted on Oct 5, '06 7:47 AM for everyone
" Ever feel like you've got some pretty big obstacles to get over in life? Well, let me tell you the story of Sean O'Neill, and his trip to Hawaii.Sean O'Neill lives in the suburb..."
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| A long day volunteering at 2800 meters...
Posted on Oct 3, '06 4:37 PM for everyone
" Monday I woke up at 6:37 AM. I remember the exact time because my alarms had been set for times from 5:57 AM to 6:30 AM, and I had to be somewhere between 6:45 AM and 7:00 AM!Mir..."
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| Bye Bye Pluto!
Posted on Sep 30, '06 4:35 AM for everyone
" Moderator Richard Crowe, panelists Inseok Song, Bill Heacox, Michihiro Takami, Dave Tholen, Jay Farihi and Dave Jewitt, and master of ceremonies Gary Fujihara.I went to the 'Imil..."
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| Inexpensive Night Intervalometry with the Digital Rebel XT
Posted on Jul 15, '06 6:19 PM for everyone
" I recently discovered two interesting things:Canon's TC-80N3 intervalometer ($130ish) makes it possible for their mid-range (EOS-20D, EOS-30D) and professional (EOS-5D, EOS-1D) ..."
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| Snow Day!
Posted on Feb 28, '06 2:17 AM for everyone
" Sunday, I was supposed to go on a summit tour with Moses, Hiuyan, and Dakotah. I also had to do a quick cryogen fill, and was planning to do it during the tour. Pretty standard..."
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| Quite possibly the coldest I've ever been. (poll)
Posted on Feb 6, '06 5:12 AM for everyone
" As some already know, I occasionally work at a temp-agency job which involves spending periods of time outside, keeping an eye on things, throughout the night. 4,160 meters abov..."
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 | Touring observatories as an extreme sport
Posted on Oct 23, '05 6:16 AM for everyone
" Here in Hawaii, the University's Institute for Astronomy frequently hosts visiting astronomers from abroad. This week, one of our postdoctoral researchers, who hails from eastern..."
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 | Globular cluster M15 in Pegasus
Posted on Oct 8, '05 1:24 AM for everyone
" The professor told me he'd be in his office around 7pm this evening to start his observing run. Sunset was at 6pm, so this meant I had time for a little more instrument practice...."
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 | Sunset Viewers
Posted on Sep 15, '05 3:58 AM for everyone
" I took this photo of tourists viewing the sunset atop Mauna Kea, between two vans from local ecotourism companies. I liked how the colors and light reflecting off the vans turne..."
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 | Lake Waiau
Posted on Sep 3, '05 3:31 AM for everyone
" I took this photo of Lake Waiau, located in a cinder cone on Mauna Kea, while hiking and picking up trash with two of the rangers who care for the mountain. The lake is 13,020 f..."
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 | HR 6152
Posted on Aug 14, '05 2:20 AM for everyone
" The observer schedule for this semester had a few "open" nights listed, and I wound up with a whole shift full of them. This means that for the next few nights, I have no idea wh..."
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| A laser, a folding lawn chair, a hula hoop, and Peter Gillingham
Posted on Jul 27, '05 2:51 AM for everyone
" Today was, as expected, my training (using the term somewhat loosely) as a laser spotter at Keck.A laser spotter does not spot lasers. Nor does a laser spotter use a laser to spo..."
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 | Brighter than a 20-watt light bulb!
Posted on Jul 12, '05 5:15 AM for everyone
" The gears turn slowly, but turn they do, and a mere three months (and a couple emails) after my eye exam, I got about three phone calls today from the folks with the 20-watt LLNL-..."
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 | Having an Impact.
Posted on Jul 5, '05 2:55 AM for everyone
" Since last August, I've occasionally run a telescope for the university. A lot of the observations over the last academic year involved comet P9/Tempel-1, which had been selecte..."
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| Things I Do: Mauna Kea Volunteer
Posted on Apr 5, '05 2:48 PM for everyone
" (Updated 20 May 2009)Although I get paid to be a telescope operator and do some other stuff on Mauna Kea, I first became a part of the astronomy 'Ohana up there in 2004 a..."
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"Know that you can't laugh in Death's face unless you're standing very close." - Me, 25 October 1990, in the poem Horsemen.
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