13.3.2016 / Maui, Hawaii

TO MAUI
I arrived in Maui late last night (it’s a 6-hour flight from L.A.). So yesterday was a travel-day… Just as it soon will be for these telescope-parts in today’s post – all packed-up and ready to be shipped to LCOGT’s newest telescope-site in Tibet. „Asia is normally not ideal for astronomical observations, as the continent is rather humid and moist, there is a lot of rain, the monsoon“, says Mr. Wayne Rosing, the founder of LCOGT. One of the few suitable locations for astronomical observatories in Asia is ALI-Observatory in Western Tibet, where LCOGT are hoping to deploy a 1-meter-telescope in 2017.