Physics Club Field Trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia

Grote Reber radio telescope at Green Bank

View of GBT from visitor center breezeway

Observing sunspots with binocular (with filter)

Students watching the slewing of the 40-ft radio telescope

View of the GBT from the old 300-ft control room

A box full of retroreflectors (mirrors)

Looking at the GBT from ground level

Another view of the GBT from ground level

A view of the GBT and one of its laser ranging systems

The Green Bank Telescope

More of the Green Bank Telescope

The control room for the Green Bank Telescope

Sue Ann demonstrating in the engineering lab

Sue Ann showing a receiver in the engineering lab

Sue Ann forming a cloud with liquid nitrogen

Sue Ann demonstrating effect of liquid nitrogen on a balloon

Demonstration equipment in the visitor center auditorium

The view from the visitor center lounge

View of GBT from the visitor center lounge

Physics club students at the visitor center

Visitor center behind the physics club students

There is already snow in the West Virginia mountains near NRAO

Science and Tech 1 with small radio telescope barely visible on south roof

Science and Tech 1 with small radio telescope barely visible on south roof