Mauna Kea.

Chas.™ has added a photo to the pool:

Mauna Kea -- Take One (1).

Just a quick snapshot atop Mauna Kea on 20-Jul-2011. The Keck II was tracking some stars with it's laser. subaru was busted with a coolant leak, and Keck I was undergoing a preventive maint or something.

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Mauna Kea is quite special -- very dry, close to the equator, minimal atmospheric turbulence, zero (0) light pollution -- home to the world's most advanced earth-based telescopes. And the only place I know where you can go from sea level to fourteen thousand (14,000) feet in just fifty (50) miles by surface streets.


Exposure Details:
one hundred sixty six (166) exposures
thirty (30) seconds each
f/4
ISO 800
17mm
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM