The Gift of Infinity

Greetings from the Kitt Peak 4m where my grad student and I are using the Mosaic CCD imager to try to locate historical supernova light echoes in our own galaxy! They have a great visitor center here and one of the things I have learned about is their “Advanced Observing Program”. Basically, anyone can pay several hundred dollars a night to have access to one of three telescopes with instruments on them for as many nights as you can afford! Meals and accommodation on the mountain are part of the arrangement and so is full-time technical assistance.

See http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/info.html for more details. Kitt Peak is a wonderful observing location and this would be an experience you would never forget.

-Doug