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🌞 There are a ton of events for our 50th anniversary including the WAS Solar Telescope Party - and the countdown is ON! Join us from 12:30 - 7 Saturday, June 21st, for a cosmic celebration 🌌

🎉 Door prizes
📸 Astrophotography show
🎤 4 amazing talks
🎯 Games & silent auction
🍔 Great food

☀️ — Don’t miss it! 👉 https://was-ct.org/events/50th/

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Zzyzx/P Apr 30

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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1081236

Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at the NSF Daniel K. Inouye solar telescope

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui’s Haleakalā, recently reached a major milestone as one of its groundbreaking instruments, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) achieved first light. The VTF is the world’s largest imaging spectro-polarimeter - a highly sophisticated instrument designed and built by a team at the Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) in Freiburg, Germany. It is the fifth and final first-generation instrument to be integrated, emerging as a crucial one among the Inouye’s instrument suite.

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Peter West Carey Dec 27, 2024

The Largest Solar Telescope In The World Is On Maui

Description: Just down from Haleakal?'s 10,023' summit is a batch of telescopes. Among them is the impressi

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/the-largest-solar-telescope-in-the-world-is-on-maui/

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The Largest Solar Telescope In The World Is On Maui - The Carey Adventures

Description: Just down from Haleakal?'s 10,023' summit is a batch of telescopes. Among them is the impressive Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Completed in 2017, the telescope sits above about 1/3 of the Earth's atmosphere, giving it a great view of the sun's surface. Learn more here: https://nso.edu/telescopes/inouye-solar-telescope/ If you're…

The Carey Adventures

Liminal Fiction Dec 21, 2024

WRITER FUEL: Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.

https://www.limfic.com/2024/12/21/writer-fuel-could-we-use-the-sun-as-a-giant-telescope-lens/

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Writer Fuel: Could We Use the Sun as a Giant Telescope Lens?

We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given us spectacular views of the cosmos and allowed us to look back to the early days of the universe. These observatories, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), are amazing feats of engineering that have required billions of dollars and decades of work. But what...

Liminal Fiction