Big american car vs big american telescope, Mount Hopkins, Arizona, winter 1996

This is the telescope I used for my PhD and the car I bought for 800$ in Tucson, a Pontiac Grandville 1972.

#flashbackfriday #wideangle #photography #phdlife #arizona #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology #telescope #whipple #observatory #whippleobservatory #car #cars #pontiac #v8 #v8bigblock #automobile #carphotography

Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FWLO) telescopes as seen from the summit of Mt. Hopkins (where the MMT telescope is located). The observatory is managed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical observatory (SAO). The three domes host the 60- and 48-inch telescopes, and the PAIRITEL 1.3 meters telescope (left to right). At the bottom left are the "ridge" dormitories for the astronomers and staff. From an observing trip in December 2005. #Astronomy #Telescopes #FWLO #Whipple #Arizona #Photography

November is #PancreasCancer awareness month!
J’s #PancreaticCancer was borderline resectable, abutting the portal vein. The portal vein was rebuilt during surgery; still, he emerged from the #Whipple with positive margins & lymph nodes, staged at 2b. Six weeks later he began seven months of adjuvant chemo and chemo/radiation. Today, a decade later, he’d likely have been treated with neoadjuvant chemo, with the goal of negative surgical margins. Practices are evolving, with better outcomes! #Hope

My husband survived #PancreaticCancer for 8+ years. His only symptom was unrelenting pain in his upper belly. We were lucky his attentive GP ordered a CT scan, which showed an abnormailty on the pancreas. #PancreasCancer was diagnosed following MRI & endoscopic needle biopsy. He was scheduled for the complex #Whipple surgery within two weeks of diagnosis. Th pain began in December, the CT was early January, and he was in the OR by late/mid January. 


My husband survived #PancreaticCancer for 8+ years. His only symptom was unrelenting pain in his upper belly. We were lucky his attentive GP ordered a CT scan, which showed an abnormailty on the pancreas. #PancreasCancer was diagnosed following MRI & endoscopic needle biopsy. He was scheduled for the complex #Whipple surgery within two weeks of diagnosis. Th pain began in December, the CT was early January, and he was in the OR by late/mid January.