Just Married, Kathie and I set out on our honeymoon. Driving south to Casa Grande, Arizona, the mountians in southern Colorado grab our attention.
The Grand Canyon.
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An old Spanish Church.
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At Kitt Peak National Observatory. I was the smallest telescope active that night (July 2, if memory serves.)
The 4 meter telescope.
The McMath Solar telescope.
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Sunset.
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The Coude feed flat. This solid quartz mirror was cast in the mid 1930s as a test for casting the massive 200" mirror. But the job was too difficult, and the 200" wound up being made of pyrex. For years, this was the largest piece of quartz ever cast. It finally wound up at Kitt Peak as a siderostat, feeding light to the huge spectrascope in the basement of the 2.4m telescope dome.
Saul Levy. He arranged for us to run the smallest telescope at Kitt Peak that night.
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Stephanie celebrates her first birthday.
Gretchen.
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