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California Trip - Day 3

Today was another busy day (as will most of the days to come).
Morning started with us getting up at GMARS, after last night's star party with the Riverside Astronomical Society.  Gord and I are still both on Winnipeg time, so not only did we not realize we were heading to bed at 12:30am (rather than what we thought was 2:30am), but we also were up at 7:30am, thinking that it was 9:30am.   We finally realized what time it really was when we got on the road thinking it was 10:30am, only to find out that it was only 8:30am.  Phew!

GPS took us on a different route back to Pasadena, so we got to see some interesting country side while travelling at 90 miles per hour.  The posted limit, apparenty a suggested minimum was 65 miles per hour.

We met up with Mike Simmons, for some lunch at a quaint little restaurant called the Green Street Restaurant.  Very nice little diner.

After lunch we proceeded to the Carnegie Institute for their annual open house.  Talk about history!!!  The Carnegie Institute own/operates a number of large telescopes, many based in Chile, but some are located right in California, such as the 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes on Mount Wilson.

After the open house, we proceeded to a small gathering of astronomy types just up the street.  Here we got to rub shoulders with a few of the administrators of the Mt Wilson, including Dave Jurasevich and Donald Nicholson, as well as a variety of volunteers, amateur astronomers and professional astronomers.

Evening followed with some discussion (on the street) with Mike regarding Astronomers Without Borders, and some planning for tomorrow...

Back at the hotel, I've had a chance to look at some of the images I've taken so far...I tell you...there's lots of images (including the astro-images I took last night)...  I'll run a few through processing and try to post a couple soon...

Anyways...Pizza is on the way...so it's just about time to eat...