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Ron Hipschman (ronhip)
San Francisco,
United States of America
Gigapans: 34
Snapshots: 81
Bookmarks: 0
Last Visited: December 02, 2009
Tags:
exploratorium
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I work at the Exploratorium in San Francisco maintaining our internet presence by doing things like this (GigaPanning!) and working with our website and webcast crews (among many other fun jobs). Before GigaPan showed up on the scene, I was into QuickTime VR pans (CERN, various NASA facilities, etc. which you can find on the Exploratorium's website)
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Gigapan robotic tripod head |
| beta version |
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Canon G9 camera |
| 12 Megapixel camera |
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Canon G9 |
| 12 megapixel camera |
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Both the new South Pole Station (the large grey building), and the old South Pole Station (the half-buried geodesic dome) can be seen in this panorama. You can see the ceremonial pole surrounded by flags and the true geographic South Pole about 100 yards away (see snapshots...)
http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/southp.jsp
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The 2-mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator pushes electrons very close to the speed of light. Here we are outside the "klystron gallery" on the north side of the building just east of Highway 280 which you can see on the right side of the panorama.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerator.html
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The 2-mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator pushes electrons very close to the speed of light. Here we are outside the "klystron gallery" on the south side of the building about 1/2 way down the 2-mile length. This is the longest and straightest building in the world. Behind the building you can see Stanford's Primate Facility (informally called "Gombe West"), where Jane Goodall did research between 1971 and 1975. The facility is no longer active.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerator.html
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The 2-mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator pushes electrons very close to the speed of light. It is powered by klystron tubes (red cylinders), similar to the tubes in your microwave oven but much more powerful, spaced 40 feet apart. Your microwave klystron produces about 1000 watts of power, while the 250 klystrons of the accelerator each produce 65 megawatts (pulsed). The microwaves are injected into the accelerator below this gallery. The electrons in their vacuum tube "surf" the microwaves, accelerating as they go.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerator.html
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This is one of the piers at Fort Mason Center on San Francisco's waterfront. Great views of Angel Island, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge from Fort Mason (and some good restaurants!).
http://www.fortmason.org/index.shtml
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This is one of the piers at Fort Mason Center on San Francisco's waterfront. Great views of Angel Island, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge from Fort Mason (and some good restaurants!).
http://www.fortmason.org/index.shtml
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