Remember what happened at the Sunspot New Mexico Observatory when it closed for 11 days in 2018?
Yes, that encodes an 11 and a 9 or 9/11.
Always a signal for something right?
But what?
These are from various deep dives I have done for years connected to my home state New Mexico.
I was born in Albuquerque and spent some time living in the mountains in a small town where a national lab and large hadron collider are located.
It has changed hands and name varies somewhat now.
As the song states "Corporations changing corporation names." From We Built This City
My grandfather worked at a laboratory in conjunction with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
It was a lab where Jeff Bezos' [yes, the Amazon mogul] grandfather worked as he was part of a well known energy group.
It has changed hands and name varies somewhat now.
As the song states "Corporations changing corporation names." From We Built This City
My father was on the SWAT team for Los Alamos National Lab and I ran with a group of scientists while going to
a private high school where I had teachers from the lab for my computer science course work, math and physics instruction.
They still had contact with me in college.
When the Sunspot, New Mexico Observatory ordeal happened, I posted all of my information on what back in the day was called Voat.
It was a platform that began to escape the censorship of Reddit.
We had a great deal of material Reddit would not allow though fully sourced including plenty of their very own mainstream media sources.
Voat went down years ago and with it all of my research information complete with numerous sources regarding
#Sunspot New Mexico Observatory and even the information of the Blue House!
I knew people who went to New Mexico State University in Las Cruces where some of my information was gathered.
People who attended the University of New Mexico extension in Los Alamos and I received both my undergrad and graduate degree at the University of New Mexico, also worked in conjunction at various times with colleges in Santa Fe while also visiting many reservations.
I tell you all of this so you understand that I have a vested interest in the people from my home state where I went to both high school and University.
Many wonderful and amazing people of varied ancestry living in my lovely home state.
Like all states, there is an underlying history not all aware of.
Plenty are aware and more are awakening every day!
As I have written on other cases in New Mexico including Epstein's Ranch and the deep history surrounding what went down there [literally] I wanted to gather more of my notes and sources in one place.
Without further ado, here we go!
I had gathered some of this in replies in an article last year here,
The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town
New Mexico's Sunspot Observatory was evacuated over a child porn investigation. But that's just one of the forces clearing the place out.
NOT FAR FROM the test site of the first atomic bomb, high in the mountains above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, sits Sunspot Observatory. For around 70 years, its telescopes have stared right at the Sun. Normally, that happens without much fanfare. But last week, Sunspot made international news when residents were evacuated—for a week and a half—in response to an undisclosed security threat.
Officials refused to release details. Now, those details are out: An affidavit, unsealed last week, revealed that the FBI was investigating child pornography linked to an IP address in Sunspot, and a suspect seemed threatening. The investigation is ongoing and no one has been charged. That information is disturbing, along with the secrecy surrounding the evacuation.
The FBI had shown up, while the local sheriff didn’t know what was happening. The internet went wild with conspiracy theories—from the usual “aliens!” to the less absurd “spies.” Residents of nearby, unevacuated Cloudcroft, a town of 700, fielded questions and transactions from curious seekers and reporters (hello), determined to decipher the situation.
THE NEXT MORNING, I set off on a public trail to Sunspot, which sits on Forest Service land. It was just a couple of miles, through forest with greener ground cover than most people give New Mexico credit for, and soon I emerged onto the observatory’s heliport. A little farther on, the cone of the Dunn Solar Telescope poked through the trees. It’s shaped like a beam a kid might draw shining from a crayon Sun, sticking 136 feet above the ground but extending 221 feet below it, containing around 10 tons of toxic mercury.
The trail ran right into the town itself. There was no sign saying “Don’t come in,” and no tape—as there was across the front entrance—forbidding entry. And so I walked onto a road called Coronal Loop, named after the arcs that rise and fall from the Sun as plasma slides along magnetic field lines. From the pavement, I could see the flagship scope, of course, along with historic heliophysics instruments arrayed in an arc on the same hilltop, their more classical observatory domes closed. Farther below were old labs and blocks of blocky houses.
It’s a self-contained science town, the way remote observatories sometimes are: Astronomy has to be done far from humans, and high above the confounding air of the lower elevations. So astronomers build little enclaves for themselves, surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. Sunspot looked like a ghost town, the archaeological remnants of some great enterprise now gone. Yet the truth is that it was kind of a ghost town before the evacuation.
A few years ago, the National Solar Observatory decided to move its headquarters to Boulder, Colorado, as part of a shift toward newer telescopes. Not long after, a review recommended that the National Science Foundation divest the Sunspot facility. The thriving, tight-knit town shrank into a barely populated, bare-bones operation. Underneath that, a sinister crime may have gone down in secret.
Under the shadow of the ongoing investigation and the federal divestment, Sunspot's observatory will keep running for now, with science leadership transitioning to a private consortium rather than a federal arm. But the town will probably never be what it was.
You can find such stories of lonely astronomical infrastructure across the US. Sometimes the money for their operation dries up. Sometimes people don’t need to keep a telescope company anymore, because it mostly runs itself. The romantic idea of the astronomer, eye at the eyepiece, in a city on a hill, is pure nostalgia—and in places like Sunspot, sometimes the small town that surrounded that astronomer is too.
JACKIE DIEHL, THOUGH, remembers Sunspot’s heyday well, and fondly. She spent 15 years there from 2002 to 2017, and she became a fixture of the community. Diehl ended up, she says, serving as the mayor of a place without a mayor.
For much of her time there, the town had 65 or 70 residents (employees at the site and at nearby Apache Point Observatory), plus the interns and grad-student fellows who descended upon the town in the summer. But it was actually pretty cosmopolitan, with scientific staff from all over the world. Monthly potlucks were themed to the cuisines of different countries, often those from which the residents hailed. Volleyball games bounced around thrice a week. Card games came on the regular. “It was a work site. We were all very serious about our jobs,” she adds. “But by gosh, we would have a great time.”
The town came together, though, not just for fun. Residents were volunteer firefighters; they cleaned up the 18-mile stretch of highway between the observatory and Cloudcroft.
Diehl became close, in particular, to a group of other Sunspot singles. One of those was John Barentine, a former telescope operator at Apache Point and current director of public policy at the International Dark Sky Association. Barentine lived in Sunspot for five years in the early 2000s. Diehl, he says, was their “den mother.”
Life in Sunspot was sometimes difficult for the young Barentine—isolating, especially since he often worked the night shift. But he loved the work (he learned more running telescopes, he notes, than he had in graduate school) and the strange nature of the community. “We used to joke that, other than maybe Los Alamos, there were maybe more PhDs in Sunspot than anywhere on Earth,” says Barentine. Perched solo on mountaintops, observatories are a little like medieval monasteries: “These were isolated, cloistered communities. They were 100 percent devoted to what they did.” The implication being, of course, that so are the astronomers concentrated in Sunspot.
Around 2012, things started to change. For one, the National Solar Observatory was ramping up its work on a fancy new telescope in Hawaii and wanted to ramp down work at older telescopes, and it decided to move the headquarters to Colorado and took many workers with it. The National Science Foundation determined that it could not continue to run all its existing facilities, support new projects, and provide project money to scientists with budgets the way they were. The foundation eventually decided to pull back from a number of its commitments—including the National Solar Observatory site at Sunspot.
In what Diehl calls “bursts,” staff began to move to the new National Solar Observatory headquarters in Boulder, from where they would run the future megaproject—the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii. “It wasn’t so bad at first,” says Diehl. “But the more people that moved, the dynamics of the observatory changed.”
Rather than reapplying for her job (which she’d have had to do) and moving to Colorado, Diehl resigned and moved down to Alamogordo, where she now works in the school system.
STANDING ON THE hill, next to the Dunn telescope and its mercury, I knew nothing of what the “security threat” would turn out to be. But like any abandoned area, the air was suffused with a sense of the sinister, of something bad waiting to happen, or something bad that already had.
I could see in the buildings’ shadows the bustling monastery they used to make up. Surely, back then, bad things also went on behind the scenes, between people, behind curtains.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-strange-sad-case-of-sunspot-the-empty-astronomy-town/
As reported by NPR
Shutdown Of New Mexico Observatory Was Tied To Investigation Into Child Pornography
September 20, 2018
Newly unsealed court documents have explained the mysterious closure of a New Mexico observatory earlier this month, revealing that authorities were investigating one of the facility's janitors for possession and distribution of child pornography.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak was shut for 11 days for "a security issue," and its closure drew cheeky speculation that authorities were investigating the presence of UFOs.
According to a warrant application, which was filed last week and unsealed a few days ago, the FBI was examining the observatory – but not for the presence of aliens.
In an affidavit, an FBI agent wrote that she was looking at the "activities of an individual who was utilizing the wireless internet service of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to download and distribute child pornography."
After authorities seized a laptop computer in the facility with images of child pornography, the warrant application says an employee observed the janitor's behavior at the facility becoming "frantic." He repeatedly approached the employee throughout the day with questions about "missing items and lax security."
Observatory officials then decided to close the facility "without advice from the FBI," the warrant application states. The facility reopened on Monday.
Sheriff Benny House told the Alamogordo Daily News when the observatory closed, "For the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there. There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything."
The observatory is about 85 miles southwest of Roswell, N.M., where flying objects were spotted in 1947, sparking theories they could have been aliens or UFOs. The U.S. Air Force said the objects were high-altitude weather balloons.
The closure of the observatory inspired social media speculation. Wamsley reported on posts on the observatory's Google page. "Why the FBI close the observatory?? People have the right to know!!" one person wrote.
Authorities have not arrested or charged the suspect they were investigating, and no arrest warrant has been issued.
A U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, N.M., did issue a warrant showing that on Sept. 14 agents removed cell phones, laptops, an iPad, a hard drive and several thumb drives from the suspect's home.
**The closure of the observatory inspired social media speculation. Wamsley reported on posts on the observatory's Google page. "Why the FBI close the observatory?? People have the right to know!!" one person wrote.
Authorities have not arrested or charged the suspect they were investigating, and no arrest warrant has been issued.
A U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, N.M., did issue a warrant showing that on Sept. 14 agents removed cell phones, laptops, an iPad, a hard drive and several thumb drives from the suspect's home.
**The closure of the observatory inspired social media speculation. Wamsley reported on posts on the observatory's Google page. "Why the FBI close the observatory?? People have the right to know!!" one person wrote.
Authorities have not arrested or charged the suspect they were investigating, and no arrest warrant has been issued.
Reported in Science.
Update: Remote solar observatory reopens after mysterious evacuation
Security concern raises questions about inadvertent espionage in Sunspot, New Mexico
17 SEP 2018BYADAM MANN
*Update, 17 September, 3:55 p.m.: The Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico reopened today. In a statement, the operator of the site, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), said it has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred on the site. The organization said it evacuated the site because of a concern that a suspect posed a threat to the safety of staff and residents.
In the wake of the shutdown, Otero County Sheriff Benny House told the Alamogordo Daily News: "The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say." Facility employees are similarly in the dark. "We have absolutely no idea what is going on," says Alisdair Davey, a data center scientist at the National Solar Observatory (NSO). "As in truly nothing, which in itself is just weird." Messages left with the FBI field office in Albuquerque were not returned.
AURA manages the site for NSO, a National Science Foundation-funded group. New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces leads the consortium, including NSO and other universities, that operates the observatory's Dunn Solar Telescope, which conducts routine observations of the sun used by scientists around the world.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS), which has a small office on the same site as Sunspot that mostly handles mail deliveries for the observatory, has also been shut down, though spokespeople for the office say the post office being closed is incidental.
Don't miss the next one found in a reply under this, #Sunspot, #SunspotNM
From Las Cruces Sun News
Documents: Sunspot janitor told chief of 'serial killer in the area'
Russell Contreras** Associated Press
From Sept. 20, 2022
Interesting as we all watched this play out and reported on it at the time, NOW they are claiming the following. . .
As reported in the Associated Press on 8.8.2020
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man linked to a child pornography investigation that sparked a mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico two years ago has been indicted.
Court documents show that a grand jury last month indicted former janitor Joshua Lee Cope on three child pornography counts stemming from an investigation in 2018 at the Sunspot Solar Observatory.
The mountaintop observatory in Sunspot closed for 11 days in 2018, but the research association that manages it has said only that an unspecified security issue was the reason for the closure.
According to court documents, Cope, 32, was indicted on one count of distribution of visual medium of sexual exploitation of children and two counts of possession of visual medium of sexual exploitation of children under 13.
In 2018, the sudden closure of the observatory generated national attention as fans of nearby Roswell’s longstanding rumors about UFOs suggested the shuttering had to do with the spotting of alien life.
Later, an FBI search warrant affidavit said agents tracked wireless signals used to access child porn at the observatory.
See more in an updated article for this on my Steemit. Hope to do another vid report on this very soon!
https://apnews.com/article/child-pornography-new-mexico-6816b7feb20f37b613af2929b97c8c32
From Las Cruces Sun News
Documents: Sunspot janitor told chief of 'serial killer in the area'
Russell Contreras Associated Press
From Sept. 20, 2022
The mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico earlier this month happened after the FBI opened a child pornography investigation involving a janitor’s computer found at the observatory, and agents tracked wireless signals used to access child porn, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit.
The mountaintop Sunspot Solar Observatory closed from Sept. 6 to Sept. 17, but the research association that manages it has said only that an unspecified security issue was the reason for the closure.
The facility employs a small group of scientists, researchers and students to capture some of the sharpest images of the sun available in the world.
The search warrant filed last week in federal court in Las Cruces said the facility’s chief observer, who was not identified, told FBI agents in August he found a laptop computer with child pornography several months earlier but did not immediately report the discovery to authorities because he was “distracted” by an unspecified urgent issue at the observatory.
The search warrant provided to a judge the justifications for agents to search computers, cellphones or tablets owned by the janitor, Joshua Lee Cope, and the house trailer where he lives.
An FBI agent seized the laptop at the observatory on Aug. 21, 2018, and took it to the FBI office in Las Cruces, court documents said.
FBI spokesman Frank Fisher said Thursday that no one has been charged and the investigation is ongoing.
Cope, 30, lives on property owned by his parents in La Luz, the search warrant said. A phone message left for Cope at a telephone number listed for his parents seeking comment was not immediately returned.
After Cope could not find his laptop, the court documents said, he began to act frantically and told the chief observer that there was a “serial killer in the area, and that he was fearful that the killer might enter the facility and execute someone.”
The observatory closed, without consulting FBI agents, after Cope’s comments about the serial killer and his erratic behavior, the warrant said.
“We cannot comment on an ongoing law enforcement investigation,” association spokeswoman Shari Lifson said.
Lifson declined to say if Cope was still an employee.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory was established in 1947 atop Sacramento Peak in Lincoln National Forest and overlooks Tularosa Basin – an expanse of desert that includes the city of Alamogordo, Holloman Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands National Monument and the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test.
The observatory was built by the U.S. Air Force. After several years of operation, it was transferred to the National Solar Observatory, which is part of the National Science Foundation.
Data from observations done at Sunspot is sent to New Mexico State University servers and can be used by researchers around the world.
From Earth Sky,
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 20, 2018. Reuters and other media are reporting that the mysterious 11-day closure of Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico stemmed from an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using the facility’s wireless internet service to view and distribute child pornography. Federal court documents filed Wednesday, September 19, revealed this information. The suspect reportedly became “agitated,” leading to the closing of the observatory for the sake of staff safety. Read more from Reuters.
Which states,
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote in the affidavit that she was “investigating the activities of an individual who was utilizing the wireless internet service of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to download and distribute child pornography.”
The FBI affidavit identified the suspect as a janitor under contract to clean the facility, whose laptop was found to have been used to connect to the observatory’s wireless system.
According to the affidavit, observatory officials made the decision to close and evacuate the site out of concern that the suspect might pose a danger to other personnel.
The observatory was reopened on Monday.
The person has not been arrested or charged, and no arrest warrant has been issued, according to the FBI.
Frank Fisher, a spokesman for the FBI field office in Albuquerque, told Reuters that the case was still under investigation.
The warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showed that on Sept. 14 agents removed from the man’s home three cell phones, five laptops, one iPad, an external hard drive, 16 thumb drives, 89 compact flash disks and other material.
Now back to Earth Sky,
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 16, 2018: The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) issued the following statement about the status of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. The observatory has been closed – and residents and staff have been asked to stay off the mountain – since September 6. The statement said Sunspot Solar Observatory will transition back to regular operations as of Monday, September 17. The AURA statement said:
On September 7, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) made the decision to temporarily vacate the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, as a precautionary measure while addressing a security issue. The facility closed down in an orderly fashion and is now re-opening. The residents that vacated their homes will be returning to the site, and all employees will return to work this week.
AURA has been cooperating with an on-going law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak. During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location.
The decision to vacate was based on the logistical challenges associated with protecting personnel at such a remote location, and the need for expeditious response to the potential threat. AURA determined that moving the small number of on-site staff and residents off the mountain was the most prudent and effective action to ensure their safety.
In light of recent developments in the investigation, we have determined there is no risk to staff, and Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th. Given the significant amount of publicity the temporary closure has generated, and the consequent expectation of an unusual number of visitors to the site, we are temporarily engaging a security service while the facility returns to a normal working environment.
unspot Solar Observatory Director R.T. James McAteer also said:
Last Thursday, we got a phone call in the morning from AURA who told us to say that they were temporarily evacuating the site and asked us to evacuate our people. So, I called our people up and asked them to leave in a very sensible and calm manner and locked everything up. We’ve been out of there since Thursday morning.
Sunspot Solar Observatory is part of the National Solar Observatory network and is maintained by AURA. The observatory uses the Dunn Solar Telescope, which takes some of the highest-resolution images and other data of the sun anywhere in the world. Apache Point Observatory, about a mile away from Sunspot Solar Observatory, is still operational and has not been shut down.
The town of Sunspot itself is very small, and all 12-15 residents were evacuated, as well as four employees at the observatory, five or six employees of AURA and employees of the post office (number unknown).
What makes this intriguing is the reported involvement of the FBI. According to Otero County Sheriff Benny House:
The FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on. We’ve got people up there (at Sunspot) that requested us to stand by while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say. But for the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there. There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.
According to Rod Spurgeon, a spokesman with USPS:
Right now, what we’re told is that they’ve temporarily evacuated the area. We haven’t been told why or when that expires.
So what actually happened? Some of the more plausible theories have included some kind of spying incident or attempt from a hostile country or group (given the reports of people working on the antennas and towers), a possible terrorist plot or an accident involving the mercury stored beneath the facility. But would a mercury spill require the FBI to be involved? Conspiracy theories have ranged from an impending major solar flare event to aliens. A new article on The War Zone makes the case for espionage. The observatory is also fairly close to Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range, lending credibility to that possibility.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/why-sunspot-solar-observatory-nm-closed-fbi/
From the Alamogordo Daily News,
Sunspot Observatory workers talk about evacuation, going back to work
Dylan Taylor-LehmanAlamogordo Daily News
“Everything’s back up and running with as much normalcy as we can expect. We’re starting right where we left off, and we’re going to keep going,” said Sunspot Solar Observatory Director and New Mexico State University astronomy professor R.T. James McAteer.
Employees have not been told what prompted the evacuation but are expecting a staff meeting Tuesday, with a news conference likely to follow sometime this week, said Heidi Sanchez, the education and public outreach coordinator of the Sunspot Astronomy and Visitors Center.
Staff was anticipating a line of news vans and curiosity seekers following the 11-day shutdown, but in the two hours after opening at 9 a.m., there were few visitors or media, Sanchez said.
“Now that we’re officially open and you don’t have to sneak on, it’s not such a draw. I anticipate probably this weekend (will be busier),” she said.
Around 20 people were evacuated from the facility, including researchers, maintenance workers, and residents.
Employees doing research at the facility were able to telecommute from home during the time they were barred from the Observatory, McAtee said.
“I assured them from the very beginning that they were not going to lose out on getting paid,” he said.
Bruce Sagma, the facility’s maintenance chief, said this was the first time the facility had experienced anything like the evacuation. AURA offered to take care of employees who didn’t have anywhere to stay, he said.
“All residents that were on site were offered hotels if they didn’t have relatives to stay with. Our company was very generous in making sure everyone was taken care of,” Sagma said.
Red Rock Security, a private security firm with an office in Alamogordo, was hired last week to keep people out of the site after numerous people illegally entered the property to shoot video or take drone footage.
Red Rock Security guard Dakota Palomino said that security will remain at the observatory for the rest of the week.
“They have us here right now because they’re expecting a spike in visitors,” Palomino said.
The nature of the criminal activity that led to the evacuation hasn't been released publicly, but workers on site Monday didn't seem too concerned about a lingering threat.
News of the evacuation came with myriad conspiracy theories. Staff said they were following the rampant speculation online.
“I thought the idea that a spy hacked into the antenna to listen into White Sands Missile Range was the most plausible idea,” Sanchez said, jokingly.
The “suspicious” activities associated with the evacuation — such as black helicopters and homes seemingly emptied out in a hurry — have fairly pedestrian explanations, he said.
There are numerous facilities on the mountain ridge belonging to WSMR that are accessed by personnel from Kirtland and Holloman air force bases — both in New Mexico — via helicopter, he said. If there is an emergency on the mountain, emergency responders will utilize the same helipads, he said.
“That day, it was probably coincidental that that helicopter flew up there,” he said. “It’s like a kid putting a jigsaw puzzle together — yeah, you’re putting the pieces together, but you’re smashing them together.”
Sunspot’s one-of-a-kind telescope produces some of the sharpest images of the sun available in the world, officials said.
AURA is a consortium of 46 US institutions and four international affiliates that operates astronomical observatories around the world.
From Geek Wire,
The 71-year-old, 9,200-foot-elevation observatory on Sacramento Peak is America’s national center for ground-based solar physics. It’s managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, or AURA, under an agreement with the National Science Foundation.
And they of course end the article like so. . .
And if the mystery hangs on with no criminal charges, with no further disclosures, don’t be surprised if Agents Mulder and Scully tackle the Sunspot Incident in a future “X-Files” episode.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/sunspot-solar-obervatory-not-aliens/
Note who runs Sunspot,
The National Solar Observatory (NSO) is a United States federally funded research and development center to advance the knowledge of the physics of the Sun. NSO studies the Sun both as an astronomical object and as the dominant external influence on Earth. NSO is headquartered in Boulder and operates facilities at a number of locations - at the 4-meter Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in the Haleakala Observatory on the island of Maui, at Sacramento Peak near Sunspot in New Mexico, and six sites around the world for the Global Oscillations Network Group one of which is shared with the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun.
The National Solar Observatory HQ is located on the campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder. It also has some staff on Maui, and Sacramento Peak.
Too see some interesting info on the Haleakala Observatory on the island of Maui,
go here to my latest reports.
Very interesting history there.
https://rumble.com/c/TestingTheNarrative
Check replies under this article to see information on #LUCI, #LUCIFER, now known as #LBT or #LargeBinocularTelescope
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