The High Altitude Observatory is a laboratory of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. HAO operates the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory on Hawaii and a research institute in Boulder, Colorado.
This photograph of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, was taken by a research team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory during a total solar eclipse on 12 November 1966, at Pulacayo, Bolivia. It was taken with a special camera designed by Gordon Newkirk of NCAR.
This photograph of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, was taken by a research team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory during a total solar eclipse on 7 March 1970. It was taken at an altitude of 8,800 feet (2,700 meters) on a remote mountain site in southern Mexico with a special camera designed by Gordon Newkirk of NCAR.
This color-enhanced photograph of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, was made by a research team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory during a total solar eclipse on 30 June 1973 at Loiyengalani, Kenya. It was taken with a special camera designed by Gordon Newkirk of NCAR.
Gordon Allen Newkirk Jr. was an American astrophysicist.
High Altitude Observatory
…directors since the founding of the observatory is given below. HAO Director Dates in office Walter Orr Roberts 1940 - 1960 John W. Firor 1961 - 1968 Gordon A. Newkirk 1968 - 1979 Robert M. MacQueen 1980 - 1986 Peter A. Gilman 1987 - 1989 Thomas E. Holtzer 1990 - 1995 Michael T. F. Knölker 1995 - 2009 Michael J…
Coronascope IIa, Gordon Newkirk, Lee Lacey, Bob Lee, Dave Bohlin, Howard Hull.