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Start Date:1999 People:Napier, Peter
Hvatum, Hein
Runion, Gene |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:NRAO Employees Unit Subunit:NRAO Social Events Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Events--Social events |
Description:Astrophytness, the NRAO wellness program, sponsored the "Hein Hvatum Memorial VLA Bicycle Challenge," a bicycle ride from Socorro to the VLA site and back (with several options for shorter rides). Hein Hvatum, long-time NRAO Associate Director, was an avid bicycler through his entire life. For many years he organized the annual ride over 117 mountainous miles from Charlottesville to Green Bank for the Green Bank summer picnic: Charlottesville to Green Bank on Friday, picnic on Saturday, Green Bank to Charlottesville on Sunday. In 1999, a small NRAO group biked a part of the Continental Divide Trail. This photo, taken by cyclist Craig Walker, shows Peter Napier, Hein Hvatum (long-retired by 1999), and Gene Runion on one of the smoother parts of the trail. [show more]
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Start Date:1980-11 Location:Socorro, NM People:Napier, Peter
Salter, Chris
Gibson, Dave
Hunt, Gareth
Bignell, Carl
Randolph, Bill
Ewald, Rosalie
Cornwell, Tim
Rigby, Eva Jean
Ekers, Brook
Russell, Eric
Rigby, Clair |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:NRAO Employees Unit Subunit:NRAO Social Events Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Events--Social events |
Description:The winning cricket team, Socorro, November 1980. Front row: Peter Napier, Chris Salter, Dave Gibson, Gareth Hunt [captain]. Back row: Carl Bignell (holding Celeste and John Bignell), Bill Randolph, Rosalie Ewald, Tim Cornwell, Eva Jean Rigby, Brook Ekers, Eric Russell, Clair Rigby. The VLA team (pictured) beat the Socorro team. Players represented the USA, Jamaica, India, England, Holland, New Zealand, and Canada. Writing in the January 1981 Observer (v.22#1), Chris Salter said, "Passers by could be forgiven for imagining that mystical rites were being performed on the playing fields of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology on Saturday November 8th [1980]. The fact of the matter is that the slow perambulations and weird cavortings of fourteen white clad figures did not mark a frightening outbreak of alien worship but the progress of the first Socorro/VLA cricket match." [show more]
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Start Date:1993-08-20 Location:Socorro, NM People:Goss, Miller
Cornwell, Tim
Brown, Robert L.
Napier, Peter
Finley, David
Sramek, Dick
Shaffer, David |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Events--Dedications |
Description:Left to right: Miller Goss, Tim Cornwell, Bob Brown, Peter Napier, Dave Shaffer, Dave Finley (at podium), Dick Sramek. This ceremony was held in the VLBA Operations area of the Array Operations Center in Socorro. The map behind Peter Napier contains LEDs in the locations of the VLBA antennas. The table to the left of the podium holds a bar-code reader that was triggered by Sen. Pete Domenici, causing the VLBA antennas all to begin pointing at a specific source. Their azimuths and elevations began changing on the monitor behind Napier and, one by one, from East to West, the LEDs indicating the antennas lit up. [show more]
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Napier, Peter
Owen, Frazer
Otarola, Angel |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:In late October and early November 1994, Peter Napier, Frazer Owen, Angel Otarola, and Simon Radford visited a possible site for the Millimeter Array on the Chilean Chajnantor plateau, the eventual site for ALMA. This photo shows (clockwise) Peter Napier (standing), with Frazer Owen and Angel Otarola working on equipment sheltered behind a large rock, with small wind break walls built to each side. Solar panels (blue) on the ground and batteries in the cardboard box power a 225 GHz tipping radiometer, the gray box visible in the door of the tent. The team made the first measurements of millimeter wavelength (225 GHz) atmospheric transparency on the Chajnantor plateau. These measurements gave the first indication the plateau enjoys excellent observing conditions for submm astronomy, much better than any sites previously considered for the MMA. More extensive measurements, which began in April 1995, confirmed the initial indications. The tent site is about 4 km north of the ALMA AOS building. [show more]
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Napier, Peter
Owen, Frazer |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:In late October and early November 1994, Peter Napier, Frazer Owen, Angel Otarola, and Simon Radford visited a possible site for the Millimeter Array on the Chilean Chajnantor plateau, the eventual site for ALMA. This photo shows Frazer Owen working on equipment sheltered behind a large rock, with small wind break walls built to each side, with Peter Napier standing. Solar panels (blue) on the ground and batteries in the cardboard box power a 225 GHz tipping radiometer, the gray box visible in the door of the tent. The team made the first measurements of millimeter wavelength (225 GHz) atmospheric transparency on the Chajnantor plateau. These measurements gave the first indication the plateau enjoys excellent observing conditions for submm astronomy, much better than any sites previously considered for the MMA. More extensive measurements, which began in April 1995, confirmed the initial indications. The tent site is about 4 km north of the ALMA AOS building. [show more]
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Napier, Peter
Owen, Frazer
Otarola, Angel |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:In late October and early November 1994, Peter Napier (standing), Frazer Owen, Angel Otarola, and Simon Radford (taking the photo) visited a possible site for the Millimeter Array on the Chilean Chajnantor plateau, the eventual site for ALMA. This photo shows equipment sheltered behind a large rock, with small wind break walls built to each side. Solar panels (blue) on the ground and batteries in the cardboard box power a 225 GHz tipping radiometer, the gray box visible between Owen and Otarola in the door of the tent. The team made the first measurements of millimeter wavelength (225 GHz) atmospheric transparency on the Chajnantor plateau. These measurements gave the first indication the plateau enjoys excellent observing conditions for submm astronomy, much better than any sites previously considered for the MMA. More extensive measurements, which began in April 1995, confirmed the initial indications. The tent site is about 4 km north of the ALMA AOS building. [show more]
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Napier, Peter
Owen, Frazer
Otarola, Angel |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:In late October and early November 1994, Peter Napier (standing), Angel Otarola (back to camera), Frazer Owen (wool hat), and Simon Radford (taking the photo) visited a possible site for the Millimeter Array on the Chilean Chajnantor plateau, the eventual site for ALMA. This photo, looking to the west and into the prevailing wind, shows equipment sheltered behind a large rock, with small wind break walls built to each side. Solar panels on the ground and batteries in the cardboard box power a 225 GHz tipping radiometer, the gray box with a handle sitting in the door of the tent. The team, here troubleshooting some difficulty with the tipping radiometer, made the first measurements of millimeter wavelength (225 GHz) atmospheric transparency on the Chajnantor plateau. These measurements gave the first indication the plateau enjoys excellent observing conditions for submm astronomy, much better than any sites previously considered for the MMA. More extensive measurements, which began in April 1995, confirmed the initial indications. The tent site is about 4 km north of the ALMA AOS building. [show more]
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Radford, Simon
Otarola, Angel
Owen, Frazer
Napier, Peter |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:L-r: Simon Radford, Angel Otarola, Frazer Owen, and Peter Napier, at a possible site for the Millimeter Array on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Radford, Simon
Napier, Peter |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:L-r: Simon Radford and Peter Napier, at the top of Cerro Chajnantor
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Start Date:1994-11 Location:Chile People:Napier, Peter |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:MMA/ALMA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Millimeter Array (MMA)
Instruments--Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
Description:Peter Napier, at the top of Cerro Chajnantor
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Start Date:1996-02 Location:New Mexico People:Vallez, Emilio
Broadwell, Chuck
Archuleta, Dave
Campbell, Jack
Weber, Dave
Serna, Ray
Lancaster, John H. (Jack)
Sowinski, Ken
Hefner, Lawrence
Ortiz, Joe
Napier, Peter
Spargo, Jon
Dooley, Phil
Bignell, Carl
Bagri, Durga
Clark, Barry
Lagoyda, Skip |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Subunit:VLA Anniversaries Subunit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Color print Subject:Events--Anniversaries
Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA pioneers, left to right: Emilio Vallez, Chuck Broadwell, Dave Archuleta, Jack Campbell, Dave Weber, Ray Serna, Jack Lancaster, Ken Sowinski, Lawrence Hefner, Joe Ortiz, Peter Napier, Jon Spargo, Phil Dooley, Carl Bignell, Durga Bagri, Barry Clark, Skip Lagoyda.
Additional photographs from the event are available. Contact the Archivist to request. [show more]
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