subaru_telescope_mauna_kea_pier_300_1992_0640

Click to view full size and resolution. Subaru telescope pier construction from (approx.) 1992.

This is the Subaru telescope, built in the early 1990s. This is one of the (many) reasons people are up there protecting the Mauna.

http://subarutelescope.org/photo/pier_300.jpg