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Mauna Kea Observatories Here are my pictures from the excellent observatory tour that Neil Bauman set up. For more info: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/

That little white blip is where we're headed, 14,000 ft. This other speck on a different hill is a solar observatory. We're even higher than the cloads now! One of the Sentinals The Canada-France-Hawaii (left) and Gemini Telescopes The main mirror of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Let the sunlight in! Everyone wants to help SETI My new home! Earth to Major Tom! Inside the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Observatory line-up The Caltech Submillimeter Obser.(silver),The JamesClerk, and Submillimeter Array Closeup of the Submillimeter Array The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in a cloud bank...almost. The group enjoys some unnaturally warm weather and very thin air. A roving band of Astronomy Geeks inside UKIRT.