Since leaving Gemini Observatory in January 2017, I've been hanging out with the cool telescope operators of the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The picture you see is me on a model of SOFIA in their offices in Palmdale, California, where they work most of the year.
Tomorrow, SOFIA will be headed to Christchurch, New Zealand for it's annual 2-month deployment where it will gather data on southern hemisphere targets. I will join it on several of it's flights out of Christchurch, which I will photograph and document here.
For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/index.html.
Sincerely,
Patrick (the LEGO man on his way to the Very Large Array in New Mexico)
