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hi all
just got back from a trip to New Zealand.
Whilst at Christchurch City Airport, I was pleased to snap a few pics of the NASA SOFIA
( Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ) aircraft that is down in this part of the world to do southern hemisphere astronomy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_Infrared_Astronomy
For those of you that haven't met SOFIA before, it is the flying observatory that replaced the Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( 1974 - 1995) Which also regularly flew missions out of Christchurch, NZ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Airborne_Observatory
Myself and several other local amateur astronomers were lucky enough to score a flight in the late '80's
cheers
Dave
just got back from a trip to New Zealand.
Whilst at Christchurch City Airport, I was pleased to snap a few pics of the NASA SOFIA
( Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ) aircraft that is down in this part of the world to do southern hemisphere astronomy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_Infrared_Astronomy
For those of you that haven't met SOFIA before, it is the flying observatory that replaced the Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( 1974 - 1995) Which also regularly flew missions out of Christchurch, NZ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Airborne_Observatory
Myself and several other local amateur astronomers were lucky enough to score a flight in the late '80's
cheers
Dave