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["Jack Jones" <Telescoper@xxxxxxx>]

Here, you can read about it.

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Andrew Cooper wrote:
> OK, you had to go and steal my thunder!  The grapevine around here is
> quite impressive if the news has reached up your way already.  I was
> composing an announcement to put on the group, but it was proving
> difficult to come up with anything that didn't sound like I was rubbing
> it in too hard.
>
> Yes I will be leaving shortly for Waimea and a job on the mountain with
> the interferometry team at Keck.  Working in the basement between the
> two scopes.  The system is VERY complex and will take a fair bit of
> learning.  Look in this month's issue of S&T for a good description of
> the system, the Keck setup is quite similar to the CHARA setup in the
> article, but currently only two dimensional.  But the OHANA system is
> coming and I hope to work on it.
>
> Aperture fever?  How about 10m?  83m if both scopes are used in
> interferometry mode.  Most of the time I will be day shift, but there
> will be occasional nighttime engineering runs.  Long days on the
> mountain, typically 10-12 hours from catching the shuttle in the morning
> to getting back down, but it is a four on/three off week to compensate.
> The pay is decent, but I will be living poorer with the cost of living
> over there.  Looking forward to it, but a great deal of work to be done
> over the next few weeks to have everything ready to go.  I am looking
> forward to one last Arizona observing session come the next new Moon!!


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