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Visitor's Center 26 January, 2002. Rich  was the tour guide.  He knows EVERYTHING about all this.		Lava -- watch your step!    [.wav ]		Visitors' Center Caveats
On the way up:    [.wav ]		Clouds above, Lava below... The summit is shrouded in clouds.		At 9,000 feet you should rest here for an hour to become used to the altitude.  This is the Visitors' Center -- it is higher than any other telescope, except for those at the peak of Mauna Kea.
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				Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope --and How to Find Them by Guy Consolmagno, et al Average Customer Review: Owners of small telescopes will appreciated this revised edition of a classic, which has been updated to AD 2006, and which includes hundreds of night sky objects easily viewed by the home observer. Read more
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Check the weather before you go Forecast Kitt Peak National Observatory			View of the CFHT dome, before you go The night sky above the Observator, live
Star City, Russia

Links: A night View of the earth: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

Factoid: The solar system has 5 dwarf planets -- Ceres, Pluto, Eris Makemake and Haumea.