Posts Tagged “MIRA Observatory”

Photographing the Heavens — Monterey Astronomy Institute

MIRA Observatory and Milky Way During Pleiades Party

MIRA Observatory and Milky Way During Pleiades Party

A photograph I made of our Milky Way and our local Observatory is on the cover of the new newsletter or our local Astronomy group Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (MIRA) . That brings me a smile.

http://www.mira.org/newsletr/NL_fall13web.pdf

Even better, it gives me a nice excuse to shine light on this marvelous organization that does world-class Astrophysics research as well as providing a steady drumbeat of high quality astronomy education for our Monterey Bay community.

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