July 27, 2023

A special open house was held at the Nobeyama Cosmic Radio Observatory.

For the past few years, the event has been held only online.

This year, we opened a booth at the real site for the first time in a long time.

We usually only sell our products at the University of Tokyo Co-op in Mitaka or at our webshop, but this year, we opened a booth at a real venue for the first time in a long while.

but at the special open house, we will be able to meet with customers and visitors directly.

Some products are only available at the special open house.

Now

Heavy rain is forecast for the afternoon of the day of the special opening.

Honyaplan is scheduled to close this time around 2:00 p.m.

This year the location has changed and we will open in the staff parking lot near the 45-meter radio telescope.

The main merchandise items are tenugui (hand towels) and T-shirts.

There will also be a sale of fantastic kids' T-shirts.

T-shirts not available at the University of Tokyo Co-op in Mitaka were also sold.

T-shirts made of Montbell's Wickron material are usually only made for this special open house, but

We recommend you to wear them in the mountains.

Also, we have a 1/500 paper craft of a 45-meter radio telescope and a paper craft of a

TMT 1/250 styrene craft models were also sold in small quantities.

At the store next door, Dr. A was selling telescope kits.

Shinshu University's booth had the usual cabbage and...mystery fruit.

The Radio Education Association of Japan seemed to be having a lot of fun with their "radio wave-like sound.

(They greeted visitors in Morse code, etc.)! )

Mr. Kushikuma, who says Nagano Prefecture is a space prefecture, was also there.

This year there was a "Noveyama Marché" a food and beverage area with a collection of kitchen cars.

I had a hard time deciding what to order, but I decided to try the spinach curry.

Around 1:30 p.m., black clouds appeared in the distance. Then, thunder.

When thunder strikes in the mountains, we immediately pull out of the area.

And the Nobeyama Radio Telescope is located in a huge, wide-open area.

It was just 2:00 p.m., so we accelerated the closing of the store.

The tents around us were all in a hurry.

I really wanted to say hello to everyone, but... it started raining heavily in no time.

It was just in time to get to the car, and we were all in the car.

(Fun memory for an aside)

When we started the car, we were ready to go home.

I noticed that Dr. A was outside the car calling for help.

We had to take him to where his car was.

After that

Hail mixed in with the torrential rain, and visibility was 10 cm in front of us.

It is truly impossible to see what is ahead with the naked eye.

After driving for a while, we somehow managed to escape from the storm zone.

This is the winner for nice removal, it was fun,

I returned to Kofu with a smile on my face.

We will come back next time if we are invited.

Thank you very much.

You can listen to the "Archive of Online Lectures" for a while.

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Online Lecture (Morning Session)

Online Lecture (Afternoon Session)