So, here are some pretty pictures from Mount Wilson in southern California.
The observatory is just outside of LA, so here is a view overlooking civilization.
The telescope that I was using was actually a set of six telescopes. The light from each of them goes through the white tubes and into a central building where it is combined. The result is hopefully a resolved stellar surface.
And then it snowed, so I got no data. On the left in this image is historic 100-inch Mount Wilson dome that Edwin Hubble used to use. The short buildings in the bottom of image are the control room for the CHARA interferometer (left; the telescope I used) and the building where the light is combined (right).
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