Mike,<\/p>\n
Tonight at dinner, Mukul brought down a bottle of sake that he thought we should finish off, since “Sake always goes better with dinner, right?” So after finishing it off along with dinner, I decided to go for a walk in the night. Being well insulated and especially well lubricated, I headed for the 45-m dish, which is well lit even in the wee hours of the morning. It appears to be only about 100 m away, but when I got further down the road, it didn’t seem to be any bigger. Like a mountain in the distance, it seemed to remain the same size as I walked. But after 10 min or so of walking, it did seem to loom larger.\u00c2\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had this idea that I’d shoot a picture of it with the moon over the big dish, but as I got closer, the idea lost all its practicality, as I’d have to tramp into the snowy woods about a km off to the left to get both the telescope and the moon into the same frame of my camera. Then I was under it, and it looked like the spaceship in Chicken Little. When you peered up, it was all there was.. But back in the direction I had been walking from I could see Mt Nobeyama ski area with all its photogenic but light polluting beacons on the slopes. “That should make a good picture, combined with the massive support structure of the telescope”, I said to myself. So I found a good support for the camera and took the attached picture. I think it’s one of the most interesting shots I’ve taken here. But that may just be the sake talking. I’ll be glad to hear any contradictions.<\/p>\n
Shamaru Mike, Tonight at dinner, Mukul brought down a bottle of sake that he thought we should finish off, since “Sake always goes better with dinner, right?” So after finishing it off along with dinner, I decided to go for a … Continue reading
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