Some scientific instruments boggle my mind.

[Ptah]

http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kptour/mcmath.html

[pokerfan]

1. Recognized it from the first pic

Not so much from the second, but if you've been to Kitt Peak, it's pretty hard to miss.

[Ptah]

3. The word heliostat is special.

I am amazed at the size of some instruments.



I'm waving.

:hi:

[pokerfan]

5. Cool

Speaking of instruments, here's a big one:

[begin_within]

7. Is that the infamous "Doomsday machine" I've been reading a little about recently?

The one that could supposedly create a black hole which would swallow up the Earth and everything else within its gravitational field?

[pokerfan]

9. Yeah, the LHC

Based on our current understanding of physics, micro black holes are unstable so there's nothing to worry about. And if it turns out that they can exist and begin to eat the earth, well then we would have learned something, right? :)

[begin_within]

10. Yep, the hard way.

Which is the normal way.

[HEyHEY]

2. What do you mean? That's the doohickey to look at the thingies

[Ptah]

4. One thingy.

It's a solar telescope.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Ptah!

I've seen those, but not in many years!

My husband has always been interested in astronomy, and we've visited several planetariums...

And observatories!

The solar instruments are fascinating!

:hi:

:hug:

[hobbit709]

8. Haven't been there, but I've been at the one in New Mexico

[Ptah]

11. Sunspot?

http://nsosp.nso.edu/

:thumbsup:

[pokerfan]

12. I like the views we get from the SOHO satellite

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/1024/latest.html">

(Click the pic for a larger image.)

[Ptah]

13. I like the concept of GONG

Six instruments around the globe,
constant solar data.

Even Farside Images.

http://gong.nso.edu/

[hobbit709]

14. Yep. quite interesting