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Name these two bridges
You're right again Buck!
Last edited by Mark Sedenquist; 06-13-2009 at 10:08 PM.
Hint : the bridge in the center collapsed in 1907, killing 75 people, it was rebuilt between 1913 and 1919.
Another.
The centre bridge shares with your name and the city, Quebec bridge and the other one is the pierre laporte bridge.
[Thanks for the hint] ;-)
Where on earth is this ?
Mono Lake
That looks like Mono Lake to me. (To be specific, that looks like Paoha Island).
Mark
I bet this one is identified quickly?
What does this do and where is it located?
(McDonald Observatory Photo by Gerald Thurman)
Last edited by Tom_H007; 03-06-2024 at 02:54 AM. Reason: removed inactive photo reference
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Confused...
Just be looking at this and guessed at Mono Lake because of the surrounding growth. But came up with Negit Island. (pic 93)
Paoha Island looks like it as well. Are they one and the same?
It's actually a peninisula
Eris,
Negit Island, is actually connected to the "mainland" some of the time, and it is much smaller than Paoha as you can see in this satellite map. So, I am sticking with my earlier identification.
Mark
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Mark,
Agreed, Google map makes it look as though it is Paoha Island yet when looking at some of the images in google it looks very much like Negit Island. Mind you some of these photos could be wrongly labelled.
Sorry about this but I did a right click on your photo (pic 95) to save it so I could blow it up for detail and saw the answer - McDonald Observatory, Fort Davis Tx. I guess that does not count as one to me :-)
Yeah, that makes it too easy
Yeah, I could change the file names to prevent that -- but do you know the second part of the question -- what do they study there?
Mark
Wow! What a cool architecture!
"The Observatory is equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for imaging and spectroscopy in the optical and infrared, and operates one of the first and most productive lunar ranging stations.
Currently, McDonald operates four research telescopes at our West Texas site:
9.2m Hobby-Eberly Telescope
2.7m Harlan J. Smith Telescope
2.1m Otto Struve Telescope
0.8m Telescope
The observatory also hosts one of the four globally networked Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) telescopes, and is a Monitoring Network of Telescopes (MONET) site."
(http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html)
Last edited by Tom_H007; 02-15-2024 at 12:46 AM. Reason: Replaced ROTSE link
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