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Well another night like last night. Amali got here today and she started up AO and also learned how to operate Clio. And then we sat here like this:

And this:

Sadly this means we didn’t get much of our engineering done. Oh El Nino…

Another song dancing in the streets: This one to cheer you up after seeing all those clouds and high winds:

Open for less than 1/2 an hour tonight. I can’t work like this.

Since we had a flash mob last night, here’s a song about people dancing in the streets. It also describes our cloud problem.

Today was our first night of Arizona engineering. We have a lot of calibrations to do, with all of our modes, but sadly it was cloudy and windy out of the North. I hear it’s because of El Nino.

Sunset:

These pictures are all from the past week or so. Which one is Tucson and which one is LCO?

Yesterday’s song was Glitch Mob, which reminded me of flash mobs:

We have reached 100% MagAO for 2015B.

If you visit LCO you’ll notice that many, if not most, of the car doors have bird droppings all over them just behind the mirrors. This video shows you why — some of the birds have discovered that other birds live inside the mirrors, and spend most of their days attacking said mirror-birds. This is just a little #LifeAtLCO.

The intended purpose of a “poker face” is to make a fortune. Tonight the Glitch Mob tells us about Fortune Days.

For the first time in MagAO’s history we closed the loop on our first night. It usually takes too long during the day to get everything done. We didn’t get Clio bolted on, but we were able to close the loop with the “dummy dichroic”.

Following last night’s song, which was a Gaga Parody, here’s a Gaga cover.