MagAO-X 2026A Day 25: What Happened?

Well…something happened tonight. We showed up and the telescope opened. That may have been the most exciting part of the evening observing-wise.

The 2nd shift took over and watched the seeing monitor agonizingly creep upward with no end in sight.

This seeing monitor is reaching record levels.

A seeing chart of MagAO-X conditions…if the instrument were in Tucson.

In fact, the weather left Miles downright bean-boozled.

Sad Miles.
Miles’ headphones observed under poor seeing conditions.

The color of the day is “soft aluminum foil.”

Song of the Day

This song of the day accurately describes my (declining) mental state and the state of the instrument over the course of the night.