After spending 80% of the 2003/2004 academic year at Mt. Wilson Observatory, we ended my sabbatical year with this 36 day trip. The trip began with a visit to Yunnan Observatory: lectures and collaboration with Prof. Xiong Yao-Heng. It ended with a 5 day conference on adaptive optics at the Science Center in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 22 Guangzhou
May 23 Kunming, Yunnan
May 25 Xishuangbanna
May 27 LiJiang
May 29 Beijing
June 2 Trans-Siberian-Railway
June 7 Moscow
June 10 St. Petersburg
June 14 Paris
June 17 London
June 20 Glasgow
June 24 Edinburgh
June 26 London
June 27 Chicago
| Guangzhou Arrival | Kunming Observatory | Free Range Monkey, Yunnan | ![]() |
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| Captive Tiger, Yunnan | Xishuangbanna Dancers | Xishuangbanna Temple | ![]() |
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| Tianamen Square, Beijing | Forbidden City, Beijing | Trans-Siberian Railway | ![]() |
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| UlaanBaator, Capital of Mongolia | Mid-Siberian town | St. Basil's, Red Square & the Kremlin | ![]() |
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| Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow | Bolshoi Performance | Moscow University | ![]() |
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| Sergei Posad Monastery near Moscow | Perterhof Palace, St. Petersburg | Louvre, Paris | Eiffel Tower at Night | ![]() |
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| Big Ben, London | Almost the Midnight Sun in Glasgow | Science Center, Glasgow | ![]() |
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