But first, pictures from cactus planting in the front yard.
Here's Gwen with the saguaro that Jani and Gareth got us for our wedding.
WIYN's 3.5m primary mirror, with the covers on.
The secondary mirror, in front of the flatfield calibration target.
Steve Howell (L), PI for the HD209458b transit project I was there working on. At right is the Kitt Peak public relations director (whose name I can't remember), there to escort a Discover magazine editor (whose name I also can't remember -- they don't pay me to do people work!) doing a story on Kitt Peak.
Looking north out the WIYN dome at dusk toward the 4m, the bigtest scope on the mountain.
Looking east out the dome, with Tucson in the background.
Sunset toward the west, with Sells, the capital of the Tohono O'otham Indian Nation.
A line of domes to our east.
Baboquivari peak to the south.
Me, overexposed, in front of the mirror again.
A much better, 1/2", shot.
Hydra, the fiber-fed spectrometer.
Me in front of the back end of the WIYN primary mirror. All those complex-looking things are pistons, designed to push and pull the mirror into shape at any observation angle. Totally cool.
Greg, our telescope operator, filling the dewar on our camera.
Here's a closeup of one of the mirror-shape pistons. Hydraulic.
Looking up into the back of the telescope at the tertiary mirror.
Self-portrait taken in the reflection of the primary mirror.
Closeup of the tertiary.
Steve Howell.
A shot of the control room -- the set of computers that we actually look at all night.
The TO's station.
Supposed to be me and the Discover magazine guy, but I missed.