We were back in Arizona, and found ourselves at the offices of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a device planned to be in operation in the great year of 2009.
The LSST is a proposed ground-based 8.4-metertelescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. We interviewed the director and on of the astronomers in their conference room, and we look forward to the great findings of this instrument.

We were off to the grand Kitt Peak observatories. We interviewed the always-pleasant Dr. Mark Giampapa, with the McMath-Pierce solar telescope in the background. When we finished, our old friend Claude Plymate escorted us on the steep tunnel-tram to the very top of the telescope; once outside, he maneuvered the mirrors, catching the sunlight and aiming it just so for Kris to shoot more award-winning b-roll. And I’ve never seen dust look so pretty as when its falling in and out of the sunlight inside the huge optic tube.

Then we cornered and forced a reluctant but wily George Jacoby into a quicky interview inside his spectroscopy room. It was cramped, funny and fast, but worth the cajoling of this humble, humorous man.