Observatories

A small collection of the observatories that I was lucky enough to visit... and sometimes use! Yeah!

Cima Ekar

1998 practical astronomy classes: 2 a.m. questions from Prof. to Student... with typical Veneto "snacks"

Cima Ekar

1998 practical astronomy classes at the 1.82 m telescope

Cima Ekar

1998: the 92 cm Schmidt telescope

Cima Ekar

1998: the dome of the Schmidt telescope in the fog

Cima Ekar

1998: finally a clear night at the 1.82 m telescope

ALMA before time

The ALMA site in 2001

CBI

The CBI experiment in 2001

CBI

The CBI experiment in 2001

Chajnantor

The Llano Chajnantor in 2001

Chajnantor

The ALMA site testing in 2001

~5200 m

Another station above the Llano Chajnantor... Cerro Toco, location of the future ACT and Simons Observatory

VLT ISAAC

Good old times at VLT in 2001

NTT in La Silla

SOFI observations at NTT in 2002

La Silla

La Silla in 2002

Mt. Wilson Drive

Visit to Mount Wilson in 2002

Mt. Wilson 100-inch telescope

Visit to Mt. Wilson 100-inch 2002

SRT

The Sardinia Radio Telescope site in 2003

Keck/LRIS

Observing with LRIS at Keck in 2006

Keck

Keck in 2006

LRIS at Keck

LRIS/Keck in 2006

Keck

Keck in 2006

Kitt Peak

Kitt Peak in 2006

Kitt Peak

Kitt Peak in 2006

Wiyn

The Wiyn 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak in 2006

Palomar/COSMIC

Preparing COSMIC masks at Palomar in 2006

Palomar/COSMIC

In the primary focus cage of the 200-inch Hale telescope, in 2006

VLA

Visiting VLA in 2006

VLA

Visiting VLA in 2006

Yerkes

Visiting Yerkes in 2006: the 40-inch telescope

Yerkes

Visiting Yerkes in 2006: the 40-inch telescope

Yerkes

Visiting Yerkes in 2006: the 40-inch telescope dome

Voyager

JPL open house day in 2006

Asiago, Pennar

FSE astronomy classes (2007)

Asiago, Pennar

The inscription dedicated to my old relative, founder of the observatory (2007)

Asiago, Pennar

The 122 cm Galileo telescope (2007)

Paranal

Night at Paranal in 2007

Paranal

Paranal in 2007

VLT

Observing again with ISAAC/VLT in 2007

Paranal

Paranal in 2007

Potsdam

Potsdam solar observatory in 2010

ELT 1:1 model

2011 ESO Open House

ELT 1:1 model

2011 ESO Open House

Griffith observatory

One of my very favorite views in the world (2011)

SOFIA

Visiting SOFIA in 2011

SOFIA

"Flying" SOFIA in 2011 :-)

Closer to the stars

The Buran in the Speier museum (2014)

Closer to the stars

The Buran in the Speier museum (2014)

LBT

LBT in 2015: my last astronomy observations?

LBT

This thing is immense! (2015)

LBT

LBT in 2015

LBT

LBT in 2015

Luci on LBT

Observing with Luci on LBT in 2015

LBT

One of the two LBT big mirrors in 2015

Wendelstein

Hiking to Wendelstein in 2015

eRosita

eRosita in the clean room in 2016

Herschel/PACS

Collecting signatures before leaving in 2016 :-(

Herschel/PACS

PACS spare model in 2016

HST/FOC

The Faint Object Camera, retired, in the Dornier Museum (2017)

Time flies

Heroes of the Future, Specola di Padova (2017... or was it 2154?)

ISAAC

The good old ISAAC, now in the Supernova Museum (2018)

NIKA2 KIDS array

Reflections in the NIKA2 KIDs array at the IRAM 30m in 2018

IRAM 30m

Back to astronomy: IRAM 30m in 2018

NIKA2/30m

Observing with NIKA2 at the 30m in 2018

IRAM 30m

Winter 2018 at the 30m

IRAM 30m

Winter 2018 at the 30m

NIKA2/30m

NIKA2 and PIIC. Yeah!

IRAM 30m

The secondary of the 30m in 2019

IRAM 30m

Where's Waldo? (2019)

IRAM 30m

Midnight pasta (2019)

IRAM 30m

Chilling with NIKA2 in 2019

NCC 1701 - USS Enterprise bridge

Year 2264, is there a better way to see the stars than flyin' there?