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Out of Thin Air…
Andrew cleaning one of the smallest eyepiece lenses in the VIS’s collection. It looks particularly fragile out of its case.
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How I Spent Valentine’s Day & Enjoyed It!
How does one spend Valentine’s Day when married to an astronomer?
Volunteer Well, Andy and I volunteered at the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station (VIS) on Mauna Kea where we cleaned and repaired the station’s telescope eyepieces!
Before we set to work on the large task ahead that filled the rest of our day, Andy ‘got’ us lunch at Hale Pohaku 😉 Well, actually lunch was provided by the VIS for our volunteer time; but we were spending the time together on Valentine’s Day!
Andy and I methodically cleaning all of the eyepieces for the VIS . After lunch, we made our way back down to the VIS and gathered up all of the eyepieces. At the classroom/warehouse, we collected our tools and cleaning supplies and set up for the several-hour task ahead.
The tunes were the first order of business that we set up to keep us company. Then we organized the table with cleaning supplies, tools and eyepieces – MANY eyepieces.
My first Tele Vue 16mm Naglar eyepiece of many parts that I had the pleasure of cleaning. We kept notes for each make of eyepiece as we took it apart and sketched the order and direction of each lens and spacer so we were sure to put them back together in the right order and orientation.
It felt odd at first to take apart such nice elements of manufacturing; but I soon found that keeping the notes and carefully documenting each new configuration, the task was quite enjoyable. In fact, I enjoyed the challenge a great deal.
In pieces to better clean it throughout. No need to mark the field lens on this one, it had a Fractured chip to mark it. It was also fun to get the lenses clean and fiber free then to succeed at getting all the pieces back together again, in the correct order; and still have it remain fiber free between the lenses 😀
They are like a cross between a jigsaw puzzle and a wood puzzle box; or in this case, a metal puzzle box.
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Bubbles from the Deep…
Fuchsia Flatworm (Pseudoceros ferrugineus) near the engine at about 12 feet in Mahukona Harbor, HI.
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Beautiful Placemats from a friend & a Red Rose from my husband!
Valentine’s Day: Beautiful Placemats from a friend & a Red Rose from my Husband! I am LOVED! 😀
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Bubbles from the Deep…
Bigfin Squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) & Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens) observed and moving fast at Horseshoe Dive Site, Kawaihae, Kohala Coast, Hawaii.
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Holiday Greetings From Hawaii!
I have been adding pictures and links to this posting; but I got it posted while it was still Christmas AND 2008! 😉 Who knows?…I may add more!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Aloha Dear Family, Friends, and any Envious Unknowns 😉
Well, we have come to another year’s end and are readying to ring in another new year! … gulp … ALREADY!?! This year our Holiday Letter is here on my Blog!
One of the great floats in the Waimea Christmas Twilight Parade on December 6, 2008. May you have a safe and fun-filled Holiday 2008-2009 Season filled with pleasant new memories for your journals, photo albums, and scrapbooks! I don’t believe that I have ever attended this many pot lucks, parties, and get-togethers in this short of time before in my life! The sense of ‘community’ is GREAT! I rarely encounter a “Mr. (or Ms.) Grinch” 😀
As many of you know by now, Andy applied for a job at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii on the Big Island in early 2006 and major excitement ensued. After several telephone interviews were conducted with Andy, WE (not just He) were invited to the Big Island in October 2006 for face-to-face interviews (and a day on the summit of Mauna Kea to assess Andy’s ability to hold up and function at an elevation of nearly 14,000 feet).
While Andy was interviewing, I checked out as much of Waimea (Kamuela per the US Post Office) and Waikoloa as I could in four days. It was great! When we got back home, we anticipated the call because we felt that everything went so well and the possibilities were VERY attractive. He has been regularly posting his activities on his Blog at http://www.darkerview.com/darkview/ since.
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