Kitt Peak Photo Tour

Saturday we took a day trip up to Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Kitt Peak is 56 miles southwest of Tucson on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. The observatory is a working research station with a bunch of monster sized telescopes and the largest solar telescope in the world.

Since My Fella is half alien is into astronomy, this was a big treat for him.  

Stars and planets and nebulas don't do much for me, but the drive up to Kitt Peak was spectacular and I would go again just for the scenery.  And the hours of exercise we got cruising from one telescope to another.

If you're interested in the observatory, here are the tripadvisor reviews describing Kitt Peak much better than I ever could.  

And if you're interested in what we saw, take a look:

After the checkstop we continued down highway 86 on our way to Kitt Peak.

And finally, as Shelbert leans against the passenger door to hang her paw and her tongue out the open window... 

...we finally see the sign we're looking for.  The Kitt Peak National Observatory.  

More Kitt Peak pics coming but it's taken so long to load these ones via wifi that it's already 10 pm and waaay past my bedtime.  The rest of the photo tour will have to wait 'til later.

But just to show you how monstrous these telescope really are - here's where one of them lives.  

And that teeny little speck of black in the bottom left hand corner is My Fella who stands 6'4" in his socks.

Comments

[Don]

Looks like beautiful weather there!

[kelsi]

Mr P - I don't wanna gloat but it's been sunny and 30C here almost every day. What did we leave behind in BC?

[Jacq @ Single Mom Rich Mom]

Ack! Why didn't I go there?!? That looks like an awesome day trip.

[Don]

North Okanagan has had a lot of overcast, very damp mornings, rain, and very low cloud hiding the mountain tops. The average highs are around 8 or 9 degrees, but no really heavy frosts yet. We are still getting the odd nice sunny day tho.