Or “Happy New Year” if you don't know Hawaiian. The year ‘elua (two) kaukani (thousand) ‘umikūmālima (fifteen), to be precise. I'm back in Hawaii after a three-week trip to visit my family, enjoying the warm weather again and recovering from a mild but extremely persistent bug I picked up the last few days I was there.
While in California we took a trip to the
Palomar Observatory, home to the venerable 200-inch (5.08 meter) Hale Telescope, which was the largest optical telescope in the world from 1949 to 1992 (when the first of the two identical Keck telescopes was built).
I forgot to get a picture of the telescope itself, but I remembered to at least get a picture of the dome:
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| Me in front of the Hale Telescope dome. |
You can't tell from the picture, but it was bitterly cold up there. The telescope is at an altitude of 5,617 feet (1,712 m), and there was a glacial wind whipping by the entire time we were up there. I mention it because I decided to take my warm hat off for the picture, and very quickly found myself wishing I hadn't done so.
Anyway, here's wishing you all a pleasant new year! A hui hou!
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