きのこみたいににょきにょき生えてる白いドームはどれも天体望遠鏡施設。光学望遠鏡施設が24個、電波望遠鏡施設が2個あるらしいです。
一番左側の三角のが太陽望遠鏡。
残念ながら、世界最大の太陽望遠鏡で太陽を見ることは出来なかったけど、幸い別の太陽望遠鏡施設を公開していて、生まれて初めて望遠鏡で太陽を見たよ。
太陽フレアと呼ばれる、太陽の表面から爆発で噴出してる炎もよく見えて感激。
天文台だけあって、光害を避けるためにものすごいへき地にあるので、半径20キロは人っ子一人いない砂漠地帯です。
今度は夜やってる星観測ツアーに参加したいです。
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| The white building is where the solar telescope is housed. |
I wasn't too lucky to see the telescope when it was opened for pubic, but I was lucky enough to go there when they were doing the public solar viewing with another (much smaller) solar telescope.
Now I am proud to say that I have seen the sun through a solar telescope.
It was awesome. I could see the solar flares too.
The observatory is located in the middle of nowhere to avoid the light pollution. There is absolutely nothing around this mountain as far as you can see. It feels funny to realize how much land this country has that is not being used.
It is difficult to find things to do in this triple digit temperature but the peak was significantly cooler (about 84 degrees) and had nice cool breeze so it was fun to walk between the telescopes. I would love to visit there again for the actual stargazing tour sometime.
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