Trip to the Summit of Mauna Kea
Island of Hawaii
  The trip started in Kona in the afternoon and we arrived on the summit of Mauna Kea with a few minutes to snap some photographs of the telescopes before watching a sunset.

More information about the telescopes on Mauna Kea can be found at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii web site.

Photographic equipment  and film used during this dive:
Olympus 2000 SLR
Film:  Kodachrome 200

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Approaching the Summit of Mauna Loa
Click to see big picture (450x350 pixels; 45 KB) 		Radio Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Click to see big picture (296x380 pixels; 37 KB) 		Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea
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Gemini Northern Telescope on Mauna Kea
Click to see big picture (424x297 pixels; 29 KB) 		NASA Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea
Click to see big picture (450x350 pixels; 22 KB) 		Subaru and Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea
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Sunset on Mauna Kea
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