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Today the telescope became ours! The previous instrument was removed (Pisco) as well as the f/11 secondary mirror. Then we installed our adaptive secondary mirror and our “dummy Nas” which goes in place of the usual Nas to hold the interferometer for testing the ASM.
It was a beautiful summer day and a lot of animals were out in force.
Song of the day:
Our friends from Italy started arriving today. We welcomed Alfio, Enrico, Runa, Mario, and Marco, who are all here to help us with our upgrades and re-calibration. Much work was done!
My oldest brother Peter gave me this awesome bright flashlight as a gift. When at home in New Mexico we use it to look for coyotes in the canyon. Here at LCO it’s good for vizcacha hunting. It’s also so bright that it’s good for measuring the pyramid wavefront sensor CCD gains at 2000 Hertz. We decided to call it “Big Pete”. Jared attached it to a tripod, shone it through a diffusing screen to make more uniform illumination, and took CCD39 gain measurements all afternoon today:
And we saw some good wildlife already!
The song of the day is by Janelle Monae, whose music was introduced to me by brother Peter:
Tenemos hemos llegado!
2016B reglas del blog:
Se requiere una canción del día
(Como lo notó Hernán aquí, no hay regla con respecto al idioma)
Hoy la canción del día:
The 2016B run is engineering. The 2017A run will likely be in February or March. It will be a shorter run (about 15 nights), and shared-risk due to the new AO and Clio detector upgrades. Hope this helps with your telescope proposals!
Love, MagAO