Rally to restore sanity - Tucson

U of A Homecoming

Football! Homecoming! 125th Anniversay for the U of A! The CATS clawed the Huskies 44 to 14. Ouch! Go Wildcats! A few snapshots from the celebration and the game . . .

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Close Approach

Comet 103P/ Hartley 2 is making its close approach to Earth this week. Here are two images of the comet as it appeared last night from Kitt Peak. The first image is a sum of 43 two minute exposures aligned to the star field showing the comets apparent motion during the nearly one and a half hours of exposure. The second image is a sum of the same images aligned on the comet. The dust tail is barely visible in the later as we look directly at the comet head-on.

Images acquired using a Takahashi E160 astrograph and a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera. Steward Observatory's Bok 2.3 Meter Telescope was used as a guide scope for the camera system. The diagonal streak of light was produced by a passing earth orbiting satellite that crossed the field during the last 2 minute exposure.

Panning the U of A

This Sunday, bored to tears, I decided to go down to the University of Arizona and capture some 360 panoramas for an architectural VR study. When I figure out how to get "blogger" to accept my flash files for 360 VR Pans - I'll post them here so you can move around in the image in detail. Below are some of the results. Click on the images for a larger view.

The Flandrau Planetarium . . .








The ILC . . .



The Eddie Lynch Pavillion . . .




The Mineral Museum . . .