01-13-2026, 05:42 PM
TomK: Sure, I'll recuse myself..
Ok, this one I suspect will be a little more difficult, a different kind of search, than the Hiilawe image. Though I thought that one would be a quick find, so my hunches are not batting too well. We’ll see. And, of course, if I’m getting too far off the beaten path we can scrap it and move on.
Let's call it.. Name this scope..
![[Image: where-is-3.jpg]](https://volcanophoto.com/incoming/where-is-3.jpg)
This is a pic of one of the telescopes up on the mountain with a friend (an engineer) in the foreground for scale. When this was taken he was up there installing one of the very early iterations of adaptive optics that he invented to cancel out the vibrations added to the light of stars as they pass through our atmosphere. Back then adaptive optics were poised to revolutionize Earth based viewing in that no matter how big a scope was, how finely tuned its lenses, that twinkle twinkle little star stuff was a major hurdle that kept astronomers from viewing things in greater detail, and being able to cancel it out the holy grail of moving the science forward, at the time.
As a side note, but added as a clue, the first light of the instrument he was attaching to the scope was of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. It wasn’t their intent to capture but when they first focused on an object it was Io that was in their field of view so besides proving the technology they had a really pretty picture to announce its success with.
Another clue would lean on the evolution of really big telescopes. A quick search of their history reveals differences that will eliminate some and focus on others..
Good luck.
Ok, this one I suspect will be a little more difficult, a different kind of search, than the Hiilawe image. Though I thought that one would be a quick find, so my hunches are not batting too well. We’ll see. And, of course, if I’m getting too far off the beaten path we can scrap it and move on.
Let's call it.. Name this scope..
This is a pic of one of the telescopes up on the mountain with a friend (an engineer) in the foreground for scale. When this was taken he was up there installing one of the very early iterations of adaptive optics that he invented to cancel out the vibrations added to the light of stars as they pass through our atmosphere. Back then adaptive optics were poised to revolutionize Earth based viewing in that no matter how big a scope was, how finely tuned its lenses, that twinkle twinkle little star stuff was a major hurdle that kept astronomers from viewing things in greater detail, and being able to cancel it out the holy grail of moving the science forward, at the time.
As a side note, but added as a clue, the first light of the instrument he was attaching to the scope was of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. It wasn’t their intent to capture but when they first focused on an object it was Io that was in their field of view so besides proving the technology they had a really pretty picture to announce its success with.
Another clue would lean on the evolution of really big telescopes. A quick search of their history reveals differences that will eliminate some and focus on others..
Good luck.