MagAO-X 2026B Day 2: Arts & Crafts

The days continue to be productive with engineering and tests in the clean room. Katie and Laird started the day with some optical alignment/arts and crafts that involved printing out a too scale version the filter wheel.

Josh has been working hard on his self coherent camera (SCC) project, and the crew was able to align a new phase-induced amplitude apodization reflective Lyot stop with SCC pinhole, shown below.

Sebastiaan and Elena arrived safely from the Netherlands, despite the horses trying to block the road again.

The first of some potentially cloudy upcoming nights is unfortunate for the observing, but does make for some pretty great sunsets.

Song of the Day