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- Spider on Black-eyed Susan
Anybody know who this translucent yellow-green guy is? - 20180811-K3ii-04397
Monarch butterfly release, Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, St. Vincent College, Pennsylvania. - 20180811-K3ii-04401
A girl holds a Monarch butterfly in her hands - 20180811-K3ii-04406
Monarch butterfly release, Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, St. Vincent College, Pennsylvania. - Comet 46P/Wirtanen & Pleiades
Pentax K-3 II with Astrotracer, Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/4, Hoya red intensifier filter to reduce light pollution, 25 x 10 seconds. I was not able to see the comet by eye with binoculars. The moon was near the field of view, to the right. - Lei
Gina's lei on our balcony at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Beachside deck
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Walkways
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - W. M. Keck Observatory
- LRIS slitmask
A slitmask for the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at Keck. A lot of my time in grad school was spent designing these slitmasks. Each of the slits corresponded to a (candidate) high-redshift galaxy whose spectrum we wanted to collect. - Keck logo window
Window in the rear of the visitors' center, facing the ops rooms. When observing, we would spend the night in the ops rooms, directing the observations and reviewing the data. - NIRC
The Keck near-infrared camera. I used this instrument in grad school, and now it's a museum piece. - Insurance saleslizard
Big Island Brewhaus, Waimea, Hawaii - Torches
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii. These were lit each evening by a man blowing a conch shell. - Ground Floor
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Hale Pohaku visitors' center
At 9000 feet elevation, on the way to the Mauna Kea summit. - Mauna Kea silversword
This endangered plant is protected in an enclosure next to the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Center at Hale Pohaku. It is really strikingly silver in person. - Dead tree near Hale Pohaku
- Hale Pohaku from nearby caldera
- Shrine
Small caldera near Hale Pohaku. Mauna Loa is in the background.