2016A Day 16: My World Is A Flood

But I haven’t become one with the mud yet.

A hawk taunting me with speckles I could be filtering away
The Soar

We’re really enjoying the close proximity of raptors right now. They love the low-turbulence ground layer at LCO as much as we do, and it’s fun to watch.

The Magellan Hawk
Time for work

This song has been on the blog before. Then it was in reference to 40 days spent at LCO. Today, it is about something else.

2016A Day 9: Extreme Again

Tonight, Katie and I were escorted to the summit by a hawk and a guanaco.

The moon, a hawk, and a guanaco
A hawk and two telescopes
Reflected light imaging
Our escort soars into the sunset.

So we did just two stars tonight, both with planets. These stars are bright, and at the infrared wavelengths where Clio is happy MagAO makes nearly perfect images. It’s nice to let MagAO be MagAO sometimes.