2008.06.02
Mountains around Santiago heralding the Advent of Winter
As winter is coming in Chile, mountains around Santiago have been capped with snow. In spite of this typical winter scenery, I feel something strange because o…
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2008.05.30
From the Window of the Control Room
Currently there are four antennas at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). This picture shows the scenery seen from the window of the control room in a contai…
2008.05.29
Lenticular Clouds over the Licancabur Volcano
Licancabur Volcano (5916 m) is a mountain whose shape is similar to Mt.Fuji. At around 8 oclock in the morning, I found the volcano wearing a hat of lenticular…
2008.05.29
Sheep Clouds across the Sky
The sky over the Operations Support Facility (OSF) was covered by sheep clouds (altocumulus cloud), as if small cotton pieces were placed in rows. Since there …
2008.05.15
Kelvin-Helmholts Instability Cloud Appeared
A streak of cloud, shaped something like French bread, appeared in the sky over the Operations Support Facility (OSF). A cloud shaped like this is called Kelvi…
2008.05.09
Current Status of OSF
This picture was taken at the antenna assembly area of ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF). These four antennas are ACA 12-m antennas designed by the Nation…
2008.04.03
Beautiful Rainbow over the Japanese ACA Antenna
A beautiful rainbow appeared over the antenna assembled at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) in the Atacama Desert. Due to very low humidity, a rainbo…
2008.02.21
Total Lunar Eclipse
A total lunar eclipse was observed during the nighttime in Chile (the daytime in Japan time). We successfully took clear images of the eclipse, though clouds c…
2008.02.05
Night Sky over the OSF
The photo shows the night sky over the Operations Support Facility (OSF). At the center of the Milky Way is the Southern Cross, and its lower black regions are…
2008.02.04
Highland Training for Soccer
This photo shows AIV (Assembly, Integration, and Verification) Team members playing soccer after Sunday lunch at an altitude of 2900 meters. In order to increa…
2008.01.16
Altiplanic Winter
During the summer season in Atacama, we sometimes have heavy rains and thunderstorms. The period from January through February is called “Altiplanic Wint…
2007.08.25
Open Campus at Nobeyama
Nobeyama Radio Observatory held a special open day event on Saturday, and attracted as many as 2695 people this year. At the ALMA booth, we presented mini-lect…
2007.08.13
3rd Day of Omoshiro Science Fair
On the third day of Omoshiro Science Fair and the final day of the ALMA event, Tomohiko Sekiguchi (research expert at ALMA-J Project Office) gave a presentatio…
2007.08.12
17th ALMA Public Lecture
On the second day of OMOSHIRO Science Fair, the ALMA event is continuously being held. In the afternoon, the 17th ALMA Public Lecture titled “Mysteries o…
2007.08.11
Omoshiro Science Fair
From August 11 through 13, as part of OMOSHIRO Science Fair (“OMOSIRO” means “exciting” in Japanese) which is being held at the Tsukuba…
2007.07.29
16th ALMA Public Lecture
The 16th ALMA Public Lecture titled “Mysteries of the Galaxies and Planets Explored by ALMA” was held in the Science Hall of the Sapporo Science Ce…
2007.06.21
UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on Basic Space Science and the International Heliophysical Year 2007
At the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Mitaka, “UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on Basic Space Science and the International Heliophysical Year 2007&r…
2007.05.28
Lucky-chan
Everyday a variety of people (such as NAOJ staff and visitors) go through the front gate of NAOJ. Lucky-chan is a watchdog who lives in a doghouse next to the …
2007.05.20
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007 (second day)
On the second day of the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007, Watanabe Junichi, Associate Professor at NAOJ, gave a lecture titled “Definition of Planets…
2007.04.26
Astro-Karuta
“Astro-Karuta (Karuta is a Japanese card game)” is one of the educational materials prepared by a project team “Astronomy and Planetariu…
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