Sunsets from Big Bear Solar Observatory
Obtained with the 10.5 inch Singer solar telescope equipped with a
roughly 0.5 nm bandpass Hydrogen alpha filter.
Each JPEG is a link to the full resolution TIFF (about 6MB).
The name of each file gives the UT of the frame as shown by the
chronometer in the camera.
Little Hanna Rocks (6.4 km away)
Steve Allen, Rick Koenig
the 35 mm movie film miraculously realigned itself within the ensuing
minute producing the following image
Little Hanna Rocks (6.4 km away)
Steve Allen, Rick Koenig
Sunset Peak (7.2 km away)
Steve Allen, Rick Koenig, Jim Drake
The BBSO sign (~5.9 km away)
Dave Shafer, Jim Drake, Steve Allen
1980 staff of BBSO
- Director
- Dr. Harold Zirin
- Scientist in Charge
- Dr. Alan Patterson
- Observatory Staff
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- Gene Longbrake
- Owen Phairis
- Jack Klemroth
- Alberta Altman
- Summer students
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- Dave Shafer
- Steve Allen
- Jim Drake
- Rick Koenig
1981
The next summer we followed the sun to sunset every night to produce a
high resolution map of the western horizon.
Where the horizon was conducive we added a few other silhouette shots,
but the seeing was poorer.
Those shots and the mosaic of the western horizon remain to be digitized.
Backstory
Once upon a time the National Bureau of Standards laboratories in
Boulder Colorado
had a solar telescope.
Sometime before the summer of 1980 they took a photo of the sun
setting over the Flatiron Range with someone standing on the ridge.
In 1980 that photo was published in a solar observing newsletter,
and it served as inspiration for us at BBSO.
Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org>
UCO/Lick Observatory
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: +1 831 459 3046