Photographs of the Mauna Kea Observatories, the Keck telescopes, the night sky seen from Hawaii, star trail photographs, and the 1991 total solar eclipse.
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Comet Hyakutake over Rabbit Island, Oahu, Hawaii. The comet is very close to the pole star, Polaris. |
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The Gemini telescope in the foreground with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope behind, during twilight. The red light on the right is from car brake lights. This photo is printed in the February 2009 Discover Magazine. Three satellites can be seen in this photo as short trails.
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Aerial view of the Mauna Kea Observatories, seen from a helicopter.
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Star trails over the Mauna Kea Observatories at night. The lines in the sky show the motion of stars caused by the rotation of the Earth. Note the different colors of the stars. |
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The Keck telescopes in moonlight. The Keck II telescope is at the left, and the Keck I telescope is on the right. The Pleiades star cluster is immediately above Keck II; the bright objects near Keck II are Jupiter and Saturn. |
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The Keck-1 telescope dome with the Milky Way rising behind. |
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The Keck-2 telescope dome with the constellation of Orion above. |
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The Keck telescopes with stars rising behind. |
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The Keck telescope domes and the Subaru telescope enclosure at sunrise on July 16, 2000, immediately after the total lunar eclipse. The shadow of Mauna Kea on the Earth's atmosphere can be seen. The moon is immediately above the shadow - the Earth's shadow is still evident on the moon. |
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The Subaru Telescope and Keck I dome with the partially eclipsed moon on July 16, 2000. |
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Star trails above the Keck Telescopes. |
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The Keck Telescope domes in twilight. |
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Partially eclipsed Sun seen rising from the summit of Mauna Kea. |
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The shadow of Mauna Kea on the atmosphere, with the Moon inside the shadow. The Moon has just emerged from a penumbral lunar eclipse; the Moon is illumiated by sunlight that has passed around the other side of the Earth. |
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Watching sunset from the catwalk fo the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. |
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The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shortly after sunset, in the light of the Full Moon. The pink sky color comes from red from dust from Pinatubo, and blue from the moonlit night sky. |
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope dome in moonlight. Moonlight has a similar color to sunlight - this photgraph looks like it was taken in daylight, but note the stars in the sky. |
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Star trails above the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The shortest bright trail belongs to Polaris - the pole star. |
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope dome at sunset. |
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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and NASA IRTF at sunset, with the near-full moon rising behind. |
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NASA IRTF in twilight. |
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Eruption of Kilauea volcano seen from Mauna Kea. The Gemini Telescope dome is under construction at the right. |
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Star trails over the Gemini Northern Telescope dome. The glow from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano is seen on the left. |
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Star trails over the Gemini Northern Telescope dome. The glow from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano is faintly visible on the left. The snow-covered summit of Mauna Kea is seen in the middle of the photograph. |
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Star trails over the Gemini Northern Telescope dome. The glow from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano is seen on the left. The trail of a meteor is visible in this photograph. |
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Star trails over the Gemini Northern Telescope dome. The glow from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano is seen on the left. This photograph was taken in moonlight. |
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The 1991 total solar eclipse seen from Mauna Kea. |
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The totally eclipsed sun seen from Mauna Kea in 1991. |
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The totally eclipsed sun seen from Mauna Kea in 1991. |
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Diamond-ring at end of 1991 total solar eclipse. |
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The trail of the rising moon seen over the Mokulua islands, from Lanikai beach. |
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