MagAO-X 2026b Day 0: Stop and Reflect (or don’t)

Today marked the first ‘official’ work day of the run (with PI).

The humans got off to a fast start in the lab while the animals elected to take a day off, perhaps in observance of Veterans Day.

A Vizzy sleeps in its dedicated napping spot.
More burronagraphy content.
Jared spotted a cat outside of his room.

Meanwhile in the lab, Katie and Laird installed a new nano-textured MagAO-X window with no reflections 😮

Can you tell that there’s a window here? I bet you can’t:

Now I know how birds feel when they fly into my kitchen window.

Miles installed his new polarizing beam splitter:

The new PBS.

I worked on aligning my spatially clipped self coherent camera using our newly designated visitor port artificial source, courtesy of Laird.

This alignment setup is complete with a Katie-inspired note card on a stand.

Thus concludes day 0 of our latest LCO adventure.

Song of the Day