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 Dwight
Peck's personal Web site
Alison
B. Peck
Alison
is Mr Peck's oldest daughter and has her own Web page at the ALMA telescope, http://www.alma.cl/~apeck/. Here are some early memorabilia and links to recent visits to the Old Dad.
With
her sister Deirdre, very early on. (More photos from the
early years.) 
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are two good ones. The one above left was taken a few years ago by Joel Weinsheimer,
now at the University of Minnesota; the second is more recent, MSc graduation
day at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. 
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Alison
Beth Peck in Athens, Ohio (left). Above, center: Atop the Cathedral of Lausanne,
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With
her fond papa, at the Castle of Gruyères, 1979 (and 2003). 
Lucerne,
1979 
Stunning,
late 1980s. 
Visiting
mountains with the elderly dad, 1994. 
With
half-sister Marlowe in Wisconsin, August 1996 
Marlowe,
Alison, and Dad visiting Kristin in Wisconsin, summer 1996 
Preparing
to photograph early spring flowers in Switzerland, April 2001 
With
Tim at home in New Mexico, December 2001. 
Alison
and colleague Satoki sneaking out from an astrophysical gabfest in Zermatt, Switzerland,
to view the Matterhorn from up a little closer.
Alison
photographing flowers whilst visiting the Old Dad in Switzerland, September 2003 
Alison
photographing caves in Switzerland, October 2003. 
Alison
and her old dad on Mont Tendre in inclement weather, October 2003. 
Together
at Gruyères in 2003 (and in 1978) 
Switzerland,
October 2003 
Peeking
out of the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where once she worked but
in 2003 was attending a conference. 
Alison
at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 2003. 
Alison
and friend in front of one of the five (and soon to be six) radio telescopes at
the Harvard-Smithsonian Sub-Millimeter Array way up above Hawaii, at about 4,200m,
in fact, or 14,000 feet above sea level.
The Sub-Millimeter
Array radio telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Astronomers observe overnight, but
the base station is at sea-level near Hilo and the dormitory is at 9,000 feet
(2745m). 
The SMA
at sundown, 2003. Whilst
visiting in Switzerland in October 2003, Alison left behind with her Dad a copy
of her recent paper from Astrophysical Journal entitled "The Flaring
H20 Megamaser and Compact Radio Source in Markarian 348".
Fewer than 18% of the words in this article could be used in cocktail conversation,
outside of a radio astronomy conference reception. A substantial proportion of
the characters are superscript or subscript, say no more. 
Alison
and Paul in Hawaii, 2003. 
Mauna
Kea is the home of about 12 different telescope projects, in optical, infrared,
and radio wave-lengths and any others I may have forgotten. As I understood it,
the Subaru is on the left, the two Keck optical observatories are in the middle,
and I forget about the one on the right.
The
Subaru with the Smithsonian's cute little moon-mobiles in the foreground. 
Moon-mobiles
with Kecks behind, a semi-lunar landscape (except for the snow) at 2.65 miles
in the sky. 
Dad
and Alison on Mont Tendre, Switzerland, May 2004. The
rest of that visit. 
In
Norwich, Vermont, for Marlowe's wedding,
July 2006 
Alison
and Dad on Mt Cube, New Hampshire, 2006 Alison's
visit, mid-September 2007 | | | Scrambles
up Monts Pelé, Sâla, and Tendre in the Jura mountains | The
Château de Joux in France |
Late April 2008
Alison and Mark at the Château de Chillon, April 2009
Alison joining us at the Lac de Tanay, October 2009
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and suggestions are welcome if positive, resented if negative,  .
All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 30 March 2000, revised 18 July 2010.
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