Miscellaneous Images


Last Updated: 02/10/2010

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TAS Annual Picnic

	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 01 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. N/A Ariel view of the T.A.S. Dark Sky Site near Atoka, OK. View is facing North.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 02 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2005 Annual Picnic. 10/29/05 Members setting up on the concrete pads at the Dark Sky Site. Electricity is available for each pad.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 03 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2005 Annual Picnic. 10/29/05 The Darrel Rivard Learning Center and Al Bowen Observatory. The Observatory houses a Meade 16" telescope which is available to the membership.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 04 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2005 Annual Picnic. 10/29/05 The Picnic area adjacent to the Observatory.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 05 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2005 Annual Picnic. 10/29/05 Members setting up on the concrete pads at the Dark Sky Site.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 06 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2005 Annual Picnic. 10/29/05 Image of 2 large Dobsonian telescopes, manufactured by Obsession Telescopes. I believe these are the 20" -25" variety.

TAS Messier Marathon

	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 07 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 Image of my equipment setup. I've added a few things since then including a larger fold-up camp table, and dew shield for the front of the scope.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 08 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 One area of the site with members scopes set up. Note the large Dob in the middle.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 09 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 2 rows of scopes set up. My scope is on the left-middle covered with a silver shroud to protect it. The Van is adjacent.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 10 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 Sherry Upton and her Meade 16" Meade Telescope. Same size scope as the club has in the Observatory. She made us all look like bad!
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 11 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 Sherry and Dan Upton's scopes. Her Meade 16" Meade Telescope and his 20" Obsession Dobsonian. I got to do some viewing through both, and it was a real impressive experience.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	Atoka 12 T.A.S. Dark Sky Site. 2006 Messier Marathon. 03/25/06 Joe Mungo's custom built Dobsonian. 3 years in the making.

McDonald Observatory Ft. Davis, TX

	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 01 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Old Texas Inn. Beautiful downtown Ft. Davis. There's a great authentic soda fountain on the first floor.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 02 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 Atop Mount Locke. Looking back towards Ft. Davis (about 17 miles).
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 03 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 Security? A Javelina along the road up to the domes.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 04 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 McDonald Observatory Visitors Center. The two large domes in the background house the 2.7-meter (107-inch) Harlan J. Smith Telescope (left) and the 2.1-meter (82-inch) Otto Struve Telescope (right).
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 05 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Rebecca Gale Telescope Park at the rear of the Visitors Center.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 06 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Harlan J. Smith 107-inch Telescope.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 07 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Otto Struve 82-inch Telescope.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 08 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Hobby-Eberly Telescope HET is one of the world's largest optical telescopes, with an effective aperture of 9.2 meters and a 78 square meter, hexagonal mirror array made from 91 segments. The HET was built for $13.5 million, approximately 15-20% of the cost of other 9 meter class telescopes.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 09 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Hobby-Eberly dome.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 10 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Hobby-Eberly dome.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 11 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Harlan J. Smith dome.
	Image Name: Location/Event: Date Captured: Description:	McDonald 12 Trip to McDonald Observatory 11/27/04 - 11/28/04 The Otto Struve dome.

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