CFHT, at work, Waimea - CFHT Headquarters - Index

Welcome! Here's the CFHT headquaters in Waimea.
The front door. Please enter...
A model of the telescope in the lobby with some pictures of astronomical objects (but obtained with the real one!).
The central garden, perfect to test your new umbrella...
The front office, a very busy place in our building! On the right, Moani!
Executive hall...
One of them!
Wiley designing some complicated mechanical structures... For MegaPrime maybe?
Bob, our brave system manager, checking on the network status.
Jim, in his paradise of computers...
The terminal room, used mostly by visiting astronomers. Hmm, it's still probably too early...
Working on the archive computer, crossing fingers and using the Hawaiian symbol of luck...
The Director of Engineering, Derrick, checking out on how things are going.
Jeff from the Optics group analyzing some Gecko data...
I need oxygen! says Ro, the operations engineer.
Greg, Head of the Optics group, probably working on some filter/grism/lens database...
Let's see, where's that resistor again?
Found it! Now, Dan can fix this thing...
Hmmm, V=RI, hmmm, no, that won't work!
Bob C., Head of the Electronics group, chatting electronics (or about Linux?) with Dan...
A jump to the library!
Francois, our visiting astronomer, exploring the Universe...
Christian and his student James, working hard and trying to find some new asteroids...
Pierre and Francois chatting. Hey, a room full of Quebecers! Where's the beer?
Jean-Charles, looking at some CFH12k data...
Mail/coffee room. Barney and Susan reading the most recent news in the astronomy world...
Bob asking Rosemary about TCSIV?
Mercedes and Susan: two of the wonderful ladies in the front office!
Another one: Coleen probably checking out on some traveling business...
Linda, preparing the paychecks! Wo-hooo!
DeeDee, our finance and personnel manager.
The conference room, showing the schedules for the next few months. Curiously, there is no meeting at the time of the picture...
The back of the building showing the garage...
... where some machining tools are located.
This is also where Wayne takes care of all the CFHT vehicles. Grrrrr, what have they done to my breaks again?
Burned, as usual!! They all drive TOO fast!!! Lower gear people...
Oh well. I worked very hard today... Good night!