Continuing with the Namibia adventure, the next pages show the dedication of the ROTSE-IIIc telescope, and our weekend trip to Swakopmund (which means "mouth of the swakop river", and apparently, "swakop" is the local native room for "bottom excrement" (politely expressed). As the guide book says "Yes, that's exactly what you think it means."
	Here's the telescope, just about ready for action. We still have the problem with the bent spider vanes, otherwise it *would* be ready for action. As it is, we haven't bothered to align or focus it carefully, or make sure the camera face isn't tilted, since we'll just have to do it again.
	Here are people arriving for our little dedication "ceremony". We didn't stomp on any jalepeno peppers this time.
	Carl gave a little speech about how the exploding star known as GRB 990123 changed his life and eventually brought him out here to the Namibian plains.
	People listened attentively. Then we tried to see how many people we could cram into the enclosure, and we showed off how fast the telescope could move, how the system responds to bad weather and so on.
	This was our operations room.
	The HESS control room.
	Refreshments for our little dedication party.
	A HESS telescope at sunset.
	Part of the quartz collection at the Farm Weisenfells.
	They didn't have central heating at the farm, so we had individual gas heaters for our rooms.
	A lone springbok on the road, next to a tree, weighed down with a weaverbird nest.
	Some shots of a herd of springbok near the telescope site. On one of our last days, we came around the bend in sight of the telescopes, the sun was rising, and this herd was shadowed against the rising sun. Didn't have the camera, alas.
	This is the kitchen and common room of the residence. We ate lunch here and played ping pong until all the balls broke.
	One of the HESS telescopes while the mirrors are being adjusted. Compare this picture with the one of me looking up at the mirrors, and you can see how various individual mirrors on this one are not in alignment.
	Baboons crossing the road.
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