California Wildfires - interesting tidbit
Geekdom off the charts here -- the mountaintop is used by several organizations for their Observatories. It has some of the best 'seeing' in the US and, despite the hellacious light pollution from LA, is still fantastic for non-visible light observing (and Solar).
The UC Berkeley Astronomy Department runs the
Infrared Spatial Interferometer Array.
The Principal Investigator is Charles Hard Townes -- that name was familiar to me and yes, it is the
Charles Townes who invented the Laser with his Brother-in-Law
Arthur Leonard Schawlow.
Both Nobel Prize winners to say the least... Cool -- Townes is a formidable intellect and it is cool to see that he is still very much a player!
Posted by DaveH at August 30, 2009 11:48 PM
| TrackBack