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Cloudcroft, Sacramento Mountains and Sunspot, NM



Cloudcroft - Burro Street

Cloudcroft Hotel


Looking towards Alamogordo and White Sands

White Sands National Monument




A pretty moutain trail

Plate Boundary Observatory Station, Sacramento Mountains

Sundial at the National Solar Observatory - can you work out the date and time I visited?



Telescope at the National Solar Observatory


The largest telescope on the mountain - most of it is infact underground




The Grain Bin Dome - ordered from a farm supply catalogue

Bambi


The Sloan DIgital Sky Survey Telescope

Calibration Telescope

White Sands


3.5 meter Telescope



Why the sky is blue and sunsets are orange

Yours truly in the infrared


Looking into the bowels of a solar telescope



The IBIS instrument

The H-alpha highway

The road to Alamogordo - looking back towards Cloudcroft

Squirrel in the foliage

Looking up a Douglas Fir

The old railway into Cloudcroft