藍色軒言

I knew BICEP2 was very hot recently, but I still would like to post some pictures of AMiBA. I am always honor to be one of crews who build it on Mouna Loa, Hawaii. 「AMiBA」 was dedicated in 2006. The site altitude is 3426M (about 66% air pressure).

Although the altitude sounds high but it still need to take at least 3 hours to climb up the crater of this volcano.
Yes, Mauna LOA is a VOLCANO and it was not complete dead.   

This is my first time to have chance take AMiBA pictures in the night time.
Tonight is full moon and not very windy, with mini tripod's help, it is not very difficult to take picture outside of the room.
Not very difficult, yes, but my fingers still feel not belong myself and hardly to move and press the buttom on my DSLR.
The above picture was taken 10 minutes before I left AMiBA site.
The Milky way is roughly can be see in the right region of above picture.

2009.10.13 13 element with 1.2m dish

Array of Microwave Background Anisotropy
宇宙微波背景輻射陣列望遠鏡