From: Laura Bashlor <lauralou@gatecoms.gatecom.com>
Subject: Institute for Astronomy
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:08:39 -0400
LFM teachers,
A Native American cyber-friend has put me in touch with this interesting
man. I will be forwarding his messages into this list, with his
permission, of course. I am sure he would enjoy hearing from some of
you, as well.
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Hi, LauraLou-
I'm a software engineer at the Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii. My tenants, Kevin and Bridget Hardwick in Portland OR,
mentioned to me that you are a Net aquaintance and are interested in astronomy
topics; that you are a teacher, and are looking for interesting things to
stimulate your students. The Hardwicks asked me some time ago to forward
astronomy-related URL's to them, which I have been doing.
I just found out recently about the NASA Picture of the Day, and
sent them a copy of the URL. They mentioned that you are having trouble
running it. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
Our home page here at the Institute for Astronomy is
www.ifa.hawaii.edu. If you want to see an observatory under
construction, a picture is posted every 15 minutes of the Gemini 10--meter telescope
building under construction at the 14,000-ft. summit of Mauna Kea. Its
URL is http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/construction/daily_pic.html/
The dome with the "snout" in the background is the U of H 88"
telescope, the first major telescope on the mountain (1970). The snout
is a crane port for bringing large objects into and out of the dome. The
telescope looks through the other side of the dome, where the slot is.
A picture tour of the summit area of Mauna Kea is at
-http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/print_hit_bold.pl/images/aerial-tour/aeri
al-tour.html/
Sorry for the impossibly complicated URL. I didn't do it. Hope
you can use copy and paste instead of typing it in manually. Otherwise,
keep the underscores and dashes straight. The pictures were taken from a
helicopter moving around the summit area, a few hundred feet above the
ground. Really spectacular views.
Aloha-
-Jim
Harwood
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Jim Harwood
Institute for Astronomy, U.H.
harwood@ifa.hawaii.edu
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