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On October 20, the day of Moravian’s Homecoming, I found myself working on the Sky Deck of the Collier Hall of Science when my first teaching assistant (Spring 2017, far left), Alex Pena, and friends showed up for a surprise visit. Continuing left to right, Vaughn Tempesta (photographer), Gary A. Becker, and Andrew Bainbridge. Andrew and Alex successfully viewed with me the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 from Guernsey State Park in Guernsey, Wyoming. |
October Moravian-MDRS Refit:From near catastrophe to celebration these images show the highs and lows of the latest refit conducted by Peter Detterline during the October 2018 work which brought the MDRS Robotic Observatory back online. The celebratory image is the center one, where the automated aspects of the observatory have assumed control and the dome has opened on it own with the Celestron telescope and 10 Micron mounting system from Deep Space Products ready to “rock and roll.” Images by Peter K. Detterline and BloomSky... |