DaveCon 2002
What's the Deal with AFLers and Giant Trip Reports?
Helen's Huge, Massive, Big Honkin' Trip Report
by Helen P. Read

Pictures, Page 7
Carl, Traci, and I Visit the
American Museum of
Natural History /
Rose Center for
Earth and Space /
Hayden Planetarium



 

 

 

The Powers of Ten exhibit, looking at the inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

 

 

 

The gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn (with Uranus and Neptune hidden behind Saturn). Pluto isn't anything. The huge sphere behind the planets is where you watch the space show.

 

 

 

Traci and Carl enjoying some planetary cookies. That thing on the counter next to the Yoohoo was a S'mores Parfait. It was so sweet I couldn't even finish it.

 

 

 

Checking out the meteorites. Definitely something.

 

 

 

Is This Anything? I think so.

 

 

 

Did you see or touch any monkeys?

 

 

 

Carl and a friend.

 

 

 

Run for your lives!

 

 

 

Dinosaurs!

 

 

 

Triceratops, anyone?

 

 

 

Gotta love the stegasaurus.


My camera has this really cool mode that lets you take a sequence of overlapping shots to make a panorama. It keeps part of the previous shot on the display while you take the next one, so that you can line them up. This was taken in three frames, then stitched together on the computer.

It took four frames to get this one. I think it's the apatosaurus (formerly known as the brontosaurus). Look at the person squatting in the lower right corner of the shot, to get a sense of scale.

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