A few pictures from a visit to the Big Island of Hawai‘i and the W. M. Keck Observatory in June this year.
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Happy New Year 2017
We wish you all the best for a Happy New Year!
Picture Gallery from Roundtrip through the Western USA published
This picture gallery is a selection of pictures from our 26-day tour in the Western USA through the states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada in August and September last year. We did an amazing round trip of 5265 miles (8473 km) starting and ending in Los Angeles and visited 17 national and state parks, national monuments and other landmarks.
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Roundtrip through the Scottish Highlands
This picture gallery is a selection of pictures from a ten-day and 1450-miles roundtrip through northern Scotland starting and ending in Edinburgh.
Tour through the Atacama Desert
This picture gallery is a selection of pictures from a five-day tour through the chilean Atacama Desert with the geologist Professor Guillermo Chong from the Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta.
New Pictures from Aysén Patagonia
This picture gallery is a selection from our ten-day trip to the Aysén region of the Northern Chilean Patagonia between Christmas and New Year.
New picture and panorama galleries from Iceland and East Greenland added
These picture and panorama galleries are a selection from our three week-tour to Iceland and East Greenland in August and September last year. After we had circled Iceland by car already in 2010 we concentrated this time on some of the areas we had to skip like the highlands around Kerlingarfjöll and Landmannalaugar. Of course we rediscovered a lot of Iceland’s highlights including its geysers, waterfalls and glaciers. too.
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A&A Forest Located
During our recent trip to Patagonia we have located our A&A Forest in the Cerro Castillo National Reserve. On the picture you can see the mountain range where our lenga trees (Nothofagus pumilio) will be planted as part of the Reforest Patagonia campaign. The approximate location of our forest is indicated, too. For more info see this earlier post.
Happy New Year 2016
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Photospheres of the ESO Paranal Observatory
Have a look at some recent photospheres (360 degree x 180 degree panoramas) of the ESO Paranal Observatory featuring the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at day and night. In particular, don’t miss to have a look around the winter sky with the Milkyway stretching across the firmament at the beginning of the night. The heart of the Observatory are the four 8.2-m Unit Telescopes (UTs). The photosphere of UT1 ‘Antu’ (the Sun in native Mapuche language) allows you to look around inside the telescope enclosure from the gallery on the level of the main 8.2-m mirror.
All photospheres have a resolution of 170 mega pixels and allow to look in all directions and to zoom in to 100% magnification. Don’t miss to look up to the zenith and down to the nadir, best in full-screen mode.