[Chaos-l] telescope (on of the tops) of the world

[walter fowler]

With the clouds in the photo I'm not surprised that the scopes in the tower
are for infrared and radio - not visual - wavelengths.  I'll stick with
Staunton River for visual observing and you can leave your ice axe at
home!  You usually have to go elsewhere to see auroras, though.  WF

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> I'm going to guess that is on top of the Gornergrat, am I right?  Even
> better, you can ride a train up to it!
>
> But it is definitely not possible to see Matterhorn like that all the
> time.  In fact, the joke in Switzerland is that there are a fleet of
> helicopters on call for the tourist bureau to take photos when things look
> that great!
>
> Robert
>
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine just returned from a vacation in Switzerland.  He
> > shared this photo with me (linked below), thought CHAOS folks might
> > appreciate it as well. It's the highest hotel in the Swiss Alps and
> > has a nice view of the Matterhorn.  One of the hotel's towers has a
> > 1.5 m infrared telescope, the other has a 3 m radio telescope.  Each
> > is operated by a university and are open to tours.
> >
> > http://i.imgur.com/OkapJ.jpg
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