Sunset At Apache Point
This gorgeous view of the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
2.5-m telescope, the crescent Moon, and Jupiter was captured by graduate student George Trammell
just after sunset on 13 November 2007 at
Apache Point Observatory (APO) during
Steve Majewski's
Astronomical Techniques
class trip to several
telescope facilities UVa has access to
in New Mexico and Arizona. The trip included visits to the
Large Binocular Telescope,
the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope,
and the 10-m Submillimeter Telescope, as well as
training and observing for 3 nights using the APO 3.5-m telescope.
The students also visited
the Kitt Peak National Observatory,
the Very Large Array of the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
and the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab,
which made the mirrors for many of the optical telescopes visited (the VATT 1.8-m,
WIYN 3.5-m, APO 3.5-m, and LBT 2x8.4-m).
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