Forty Two Years of Pure Bliss

Trip up Mt. Hopkins to the Whipple Observatory

The Fred Lawrence Observatory on Mt. Hopkins (in the background) is the largest field installation of the Smithsonian Astrological Observatory outside of their main site in Cambridge, MA. 

Closer view of the largest telescope housing. Bill and cousin Chuck Willie discussing high level astrological stuff.

Lunch spot 

  View of Green Valley and nearby copper mines.

 

We rode the bus ten miles up the mountain on this windy road, some of it unpaved, but gorgeous views all the way up.

View of Mexico in the background.



 One set of telescopes on the way to the top.

 

MMT telescope on top of the mountain--8550 ft elevation.