Observing up at Mauna Kea

May 2006

Silver sword

View of Mauna Loa

Hualalai in the distance

Hale Pohaku

At the summit

Subaru and the Kecks

Gemini

Maui's Haleakala in the distance

Mauna Kea's summertime night sky! (The hint of pink in the top corner is an artifact of my camera, the orange-pink in the lower left is the sodium vapor lamps of Hilo)

Looking towards the center of the Milky Way

The full Scorpion, claws and all! The Milky Way is visible near the bottom, and below to the left, in pink-orange, are the lights of Hilo. The bright smeared spot near the top is Jupiter. Antares is in the center.

The Southern Cross and alpha and beta Centauri

The southern cross just above Mauna Loa, and the lights of the ML observatory

A fuzzy scorpion (easy to pick out) and sagittarius

Same but clear

Southern Cross, a and b Cen, and the dark Coalsack nebula in the center

Same, but with a and b Cen near the center.