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cantsleepawink ago

Arizona is an interesting place :

The University of Arizona, together with the Vatican and Jesuit Order, announced today it named its newest high-powered telescopic instrument ‘Lucifer’.

The primary mirror was manufactured at The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory

http://mirrorlab.as.arizona.edu/

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CARIS FOUNDATION (LUCIFER TELESCOPE) AND UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION

Through its Arizona NOW Campaign, the University of Arizona Foundation has raised more than $1 billion toward the $1.5 billion goal. Caris’ gift for the GMT supports all of the campaign’s key initiatives, including academic research, the engagement of students, and expanding the UA’s global impact.

“It takes a special person to build a global company and then apply that same scale to his philanthropy,” said James H. Moore, Jr., president and CEO of the University of Arizona Foundation. “Mr. Caris may be supporting the Department of Astronomy at the UA, but his influence on big science, and the exploration of our universe, stretches well beyond our university’s boundaries.”

The following organizations and institutions are participating with the UA in the GMT project: Astronomy Australia Ltd., The Australian National University, Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Texas A&M University, The University of Chicago, The University of Texas at Austin, and Universidade de São Paulo.

http://mirrorlab.as.arizona.edu/node/107

Richard Hein was chosen as project architect, and the design was executed by architect August K. Strotz, both from the firm of Anshen & Allen. The chapel is built on Coconino National Forest land; the late Senator Barry Goldwater assisted Staude in obtaining a special-use permit. The construction supervisor was Fred Courkos, who built the chapel in 18 months at a cost of US$300,000. The chapel was completed in 1956

In 2007, Arizonans voted the Chapel to be one of the Seven Man-Made Wonders of Arizona,[4] and it is also the site of one of the so-called Sedona vortices.

There is a specialized New Age tourist industry in Sedona, where the "Harmonic Convergence" was organized by Jose Arguelles in 1987. Some purport that "spiritual vortices" are concentrated in the Sedona area at Bell Rock, Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, and Boynton Canyon.

Fostasmacker ago

Enchantment Resort is located on Boynton Canyon Rd in Sedona Arizona. Anyone check that location? Pretty Remote Access with many forest roads

cantsleepawink ago

Thank you. Will dig.