Astro Quiz

[furrysocks2]

ALMA Operations Support Facility

[furrysocks2]

[Stub Mandrel]

Well if it's on Google Maps it isn't named!

[furrysocks2]

1 minute ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Well if it's on Google Maps it isn't named!

Just got to dig a little deeper.

[Horwig]

Prize goes to furrysocks2, well spotted. True it's not named on Google maps, what an omission, but that's what it is.

https://public.nrao.edu/special-features/alma-explorer/

Here's a slightly closer view I took:

I didn't get to visit. It's only open for visits on Saturday, but I prioritised, and went to see the VLT because you don't get to see the dishes, at over 5000 meters they are deemed off limits due of health and safety reasons.

The guide we had at San Pedro de Atacama was a Swiss lady, and she had just been showing a Swiss astronaut around Chile, ( I assume Claude Nicollier). They had been allowed up to the dishes, astronauts seem exempt from regulations that bind us mere humans.

Furrysocks, if you are ever in Caernarfon, I will be buying the beer.

 

Huw

 

[furrysocks2]

10 minutes ago, Horwig said:

Furrysocks, if you are ever in Caernarfon, I will be buying the beer.

I'll make an effort to come.

[furrysocks2]

3 hours ago, carastro said:

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

I owe you a Malibu next time you're north of the border. Perhaps just a single, though.

[furrysocks2]

1 hour ago, furrysocks2 said:

For bonus points...

[Horwig]

Hmmm, that's Wile E. Coyote if I'm not very much mistaken, scratching my head for the connection, can only think of ACME at the moment

[furrysocks2]

2 minutes ago, Horwig said:

Hmmm, that's Wile E. Coyote if I'm not very much mistaken, scratching my head for the connection, can only think of ACME at the moment

You got the A and the M in the right places, it's related.

[Horwig]

ALMA/ACME ??

[michael8554]

To get to Atacama you have to make a left at Albuquerque........

Michael

[furrysocks2]

2 hours ago, Horwig said:

ALMA/ACME ??

ALMA, aye. I just found it on Google, looking round the facility.

 

When did you go?

[Horwig]

10 hours ago, furrysocks2 said:

When did you go?

My good wife gave me a birthday trip in October, Peru and Northern Chile. Visited Cusco, Machu Picchu, then San Pedro de Atacama, and Cerro Paranal, quite a trip, and all in three weeks.

Paranal pictures here:

 

Macchu Picchu pictures here:

Huw