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Welcome to the home of Magellan AO software.

Bugs: MagAO Bugzilla.

View VisAO source code documentation:
VisAO Source.

Award-Winning Blog Posts

The Alpaca Saga - Amali Vaz, 2019B • A Post That Cannot Words - Amali Vaz, 2015B

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La Serena, 2024Aa • Santiago de Chile, 2023A • Valparaíso, 2022B

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Blog Archives

Recent Posts

  • MSM Day End: The future
  • MSM Day 2: Instruments galore
  • MSM Day 1: It’s not giant, but this Magellan is already in Chile
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 22: I am a Meat Popsicle
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 21: MagAO-X Wrapped
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 20: you can see yourself out
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 19: A night to not remember.
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 18: The ‘whoa’ day
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 17 – The ballad of the guac and the Yorch
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 16: Excellent Extreme Experimenting and Engineering
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 15: Close Encounters of the Laird Kind
  • MagAO-X 2025A Bonus: Gracias, grupo MegAO-X =)
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 14: bug buses, homebound planes, and fantastic foxes
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 13: Stick with it
  • MAPS April 2025A Night 2: Toky(A)o Drift
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 12: Step Up to the Plate
  • MAPS Apr. 2025 Night 1: Six Degrees of Freedom
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 11: New kid on the block!
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 10: It’s so over
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 9: A clear sky is not enough
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 8: Telescope Tours
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 7: Seeing green
  • MagAO-X 2025 Day 6: Dawn of the Polarimeter
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 5: It’s time for a change.
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 4: 24 hours on a row
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 3: Move on up
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 2: We’re so back
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 1: Back in the Saddle
  • MagAO-X 2025A Day 0: When Delta Delays Take Over
  • MAPS Feb. 2025 Night 4: Oh Connection, where art thou?
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