Jay Lake: Writer

[photos] Launch Pad goes to WIRO

Late yesterday afternoon we all hauled out to the Wyoming Infrared Observatory…

Approaching the observatory

Observatory exterior and control room.

Boötes Nu, the observatory cat.

The WIRO telescope, an infrared optimize 92 inch reflecting telescope currently being used for optical surveying.

Instructors Jerry Oltion and Jim Verley

Your author, on a mountaintop, overlooking the kingdoms of the world.

Night vision photography.

David Levine and me by night vision goggles. (We took one another’s photos with my camera.)

As usual, more at the Flickr set.

Tags: cats, Conventions, Cool, Photos, Science, Travel

Posted: 8:35 am Sun August 03 2008 |

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