Astro Quiz

[Horwig]

Anybody guess the significance of this shot?

Beer for the first correct answer, but only in my local pub 

 

Huw

 

[Cornelius Varley]

Water in the Atacama Desert ?

[Horwig]

No

[michael8554]

Amazing what you can achieve with PhotoShop ?

Or

First sighting of a Huw's Flamingo at Prestatyn Sands ?

Desert and volcano, does look like Atacama Peter

Michael

[Davey-T]

NASAs vision of tera forming Mars, Flamingos being the right colour 

Dave

[The-MathMog]

First thing that comes to my mind, is that one of the peaks in the background, looks like a quite suitable spot to build an observatory

[Jonk]

Someone's Flamingoed up?

Like a cock up only much bigger.

[Horwig]

1 minute ago, The-MathMog said:

First thing that comes to my mind, is that one of the peaks in the background, looks like a quite suitable spot to build an observatory

OOOh, that's getting warm

[The-MathMog]

9 minutes ago, Horwig said:

OOOh, that's getting warm

The only one that then comes to mind, is the "European - Extremely Large Telescope"?  But the site doesn't quite look right to me.

[carastro]

Looks like the mountain in Chile that they blew the top off to build an observatory, but not sure what the Significance is of the flamingo.  But I do know they feed in highly alkaline lakes, so can that be the significance somehow.

Carole 

[Dave In Vermont]

Is it near the Chilean Cerro Armazones?

Dave

[Craney]

Either, you have proved Flamingoes show up better in Hydrogen Alpha....( well...obviously ).....

Or.. I guess you are probably taking a rig out there... tough.. but somebody's gotta do it....

[furrysocks2]

The two volcanic peaks are on the Chile/Bolivia border, about 15km NW of Cerro Toco... Licancabur and Juriques.

[Horwig]

19 minutes ago, furrysocks2 said:

The two volcanic peaks are on the Chile/Bolivia border, about 15km NW of Cerro Toco... Licancabur and Juriques.

Well spotted, and...?

[Debo]

Is the image flipped vertically, flat top peak should be on the left maybe 

[Horwig]

15 hours ago, The-MathMog said:

The only one that then comes to mind, is the "European - Extremely Large Telescope"?  But the site doesn't quite look right to me.

 

14 hours ago, carastro said:

Looks like the mountain in Chile that they blew the top off to build an observatory, but not sure what the Significance is of the flamingo.  But I do know they feed in highly alkaline lakes, so can that be the significance somehow.

Carole 

 

13 hours ago, Dave In Vermont said:

Is it near the Chilean Cerro Armazones?

Dave

No pints I'm afraid, even though you are correct in the country, it is indeed Chile.

The mountain on the right of the two certainly does look like Armazones, but this is the real Armazones, shot from Paranal.

Furrysocks2 was absolutely correct as to the location of the shot, but has not mentioned the astro connection

[The-MathMog]

Can't find anything astro-related to the peaks in the picture, but just behind them on Sairécabur, there is the Receiver Lab Telescope that works in the terahertz range
And to the right of the picture's orientation as mentioned is the Cerro Toco where the The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Huan Tran Telescope (POLARBEAR) lies. That is one weird looking polarbear though!  

[Horwig]

OK, I'll give a hint. The peaks are not the object to find in the image...

I'm enjoying this, now I know why Stu tarted his StuPOD!

[carastro]

Is it something to do with the light patch in the terrain - half way up the slope in the right half of the image, there are some buildings there, but can't see what.

Carole 

[Horwig]

7 minutes ago, carastro said:

Is it something to do with the light patch in the terrain - half way up the slope in the right half of the image, there are some buildings there, but can't see what.

Carole 

Bingo!!!

Refering to your earlier post Carole, the flamingo is there to distract attention

[carastro]

Aha! Do I get a prize?  

Also what are those buildings?

Carole 

[Horwig]

Just now, carastro said:

 

Also what are those buildings?

Carole 

You tell me, but the beer is getting close

[carastro]

Don't drink beer, but a bottle of Malibu will do fine.  Lol

[StuartJPP]

I used the "CSI Enhance" Photoshop Plug-in on those buildings and saw this?

 

 

[geoflewis]

Is this where NASA tested the Mars rovers?