August, 2010....J.
Dana Hrubes...updated August 31, 2010 , 2300 GMT
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Aurora Australis "rains" down over South Pole Telescope (SPT)
August is the last full month of the
Austral winter without the sun and the last glimpse of the beautiful
skies full of stars and aurora Australis. It is also the month when
Polies start to think about sunrise and all of the digging out,
cleaning up and other work necessary to get the station ready for
opening in late October. The unusually long and heavy storms this
winter have left buildings covered in and surrounded by mountains of
snow and ice. As twilight starts to appear in early September we will
be able to see the results of the winter storms and finally get to find
out what we were tripping and falling over all winter.
Last glimpse of aurora Australis and stars for the 2010 winter.
aurora over SPT aurora reflecting off 10 meter dish aurora silhouetting SPT
The planets venus, Mars and Jupiter all rose above the horizon in August: aurora and rising Venus dark sector lab and aurora over rising Jupiter
Venus with Mars directly underneath below SPT Venus (brightest) and Mars just rising above the horizon Venus and Mars 10 days later
Colorful aurora Australis dances above the Ice Cube Neutrino Laboratory while Venus rises to the left
The Milky Way:
SPT and our milky way galaxy SPT stars
The constellation Scorpius is just above and to the left ot SPT: SPT scorpius and the milky way SPT and scorpius
Working on the telescope at -92 F: telescope maintenance
Climbing out of the control room roof hatch to perform regular maintenance on South Pole Telescope
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