MagAO-C 2016A

  • 2016A: Home

    2016-03-06

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A: Home
    We all made it home safely. Carefully packing my purse the first time I left the house, I remembered my keys and phone… but forgot my wallet — oh yeah, you need money to acquire goods in the non-mountain economy! At least I remembered I DIDN’T need my flashlight. This 3-song mashup is so ...
  • 2016A Day 22: Keep On Turning

    2016-03-03

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 22: Keep On Turning
    Our last day at LCO (this time) was a critter filled day. The Guanaco herd, complete with youngun, made an appearance. The pictures didn’t turn out though. Today we packed up a lot of stuff. Some things were more carefully packed than others. So long LCO. See you next time. Made of Silver. Once.
  • 2016A Day 21: Lean on me

    2016-03-02

    Katie Morzinski

    Thanks to those who help us carry on!
  • 2016A Day 20: No One Can Hurt You Now

    2016-03-01

    Jared Males

    Safe and sound.
  • 2016A Day 19: Hallelujah

    2016-02-29

    Katie Morzinski

  • 2016A Day 18: Stuck On Tight

    2016-02-28

    Jared Males

  • 2016A Day 17: 7

    2016-02-27

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 17: 7
    Today’s post is brought to you by the number 7. Seven what? 7 Ohms. Apparently, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince must hate youtube, because I can’t find an embeddable link to his wonderful song “7”, so this will have to do: http://videos.sapo.pt/nQFuZzoKsDmHe9IkCtoY And there are also these wonderful songs about the number 7: This one is ...
  • 2016A Day 16: My World Is A Flood

    2016-02-26

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 16: My World Is A Flood
    But I haven’t become one with the mud yet. 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. This song has been on the blog before. Then it was in reference to 40 days spent at ...
  • 2016A Day 15: La manada de guanacos

    2016-02-25

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 15: La manada de guanacos
  • 2016A Day 14: Buckle Up

    2016-02-24

    Jared Males

    Day 14 AND post #400. I’d been planning to celebrate.
  • 2016A Day 13: High 5

    2016-02-23

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 13: High 5
    High 5!
  • 2016A Day 12: Moonlit Dark

    2016-02-22

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 12: Moonlit Dark
  • 2016A Day 11: The Climb

    2016-02-21

    Katie Morzinski

  • 2016A Day 10: Troubles So Hard

    2016-02-20

    Jared Males

  • 2016A Day 9: Extreme Again

    2016-02-19

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 9: Extreme Again
    Tonight, Katie and I were escorted to the summit by a hawk and a guanaco. 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.
  • 2016A Day 8: Surprise !

    2016-02-18

    Laird Close

    2016A Day 8: Surprise !
    Tonight went really well we only had 6 communication errors on start-up of the ASM (whereas we often have thousands but most don’t bother us) — so the ASM is enjoying this warm weather we are having. As you can see for the photos below we had a surprise at the end of last night ...
  • 2016A Day 7: The Hunt

    2016-02-17

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 7: The Hunt
    We had a good night going. We think we’ve found a solution to the ASM electronics problem — one of us just has to get out of bed early and warm it up before dinner. That did the trick tonight, no problems since. But we’ve been stuck with a bum guider for the ...
  • 2016A Day 6: Samoa Pyramids

    2016-02-16

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 6: Samoa Pyramids
    Tonight we noticed that our pyramid pupils look like Samoa(R) Girl Scout (R) cookies that Laird brought on behalf of his daughter: We started the night with some ASM issues that prompted us to send up the bat-signal to our Italian colleagues: Walking down the hill this morning, we saw fog in the valley and a hawk ...
  • 2016A Day 5: The Internet Is Back

    2016-02-16

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 5: The Internet Is Back
    The internet went down in the middle of the night last night, and just came back. Two nights ago we used a high speed camera, an Andor iXON 897 EMCCD, to measure the vibrations of our system at 2500 Hz (that means we were taking images at 5000 Hz). The camera was mounted ...
  • 2016A Day 4: Eye Trouble

    2016-02-14

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 4: Eye Trouble
    We started tonight off with some eyepiece observing. Of course, since we had visitors, the ASM decided to act up. It seems to be the same problem we had in 2015A — and I hope it will go away by itself just like it did then. In the brief moments we had ...
  • 2016A Day 3: Loop is closed

    2016-02-13

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 3: Loop is closed
    Today was a 7am breakfast to 7am dawn kind of day. Mario Matteo and his team finished their M2FS run with some calibrations, Juan and the crew pulled M2FS and the f/11, Juan et al. installed our NAS and ASM, we cabled the ASM and NAS, and finally we went on sky, closed the ...
  • 2016A Day 2: Clio’s so cool

    2016-02-12

    Katie Morzinski

    2016A Day 2: Clio's so cool
    I feel so much better after getting 8 hours of sleep in a bed! That red-eye is brutal. But now I’ve had a full day of good food after good sleep, Clio is chilling, and things are good. Today… …I cooled Clio with Victor’s help: …Jared and Laird worked on the NAS and Laird ...
  • 2016A Day 1: This and That

    2016-02-11

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 1: This and That
    Katie arrived safe and sound, just in time for dinner. During the day: more preparations, mostly working on our new toys. We installed the new field stop, but only after Laird drew all over it with a Sharpie. Oscar helped us countersink some bolts, and Laird tested out the mount for our new ...
  • 2016A Day 0: Fresh On Arrival

    2016-02-10

    Jared Males

    2016A Day 0: Fresh On Arrival
    Mark Phillips commented, upon seeing me at lunch, that us AOistas always look “so fresh when you get here.” That implies that he has seen me look “not fresh”. It’s fair. Laird made it today, and Katie is in the air. We’re hard at work getting ready. This time, we have also ...
  • 2016A Day -1: Already Back

    2016-02-09

    Jared Males

    2016A Day -1: Already Back
    Yep, it’s that time again. If you’re thinking we just left, you’re right. We just barely had more time at home than we usually spend here. The drive up: Some work got done: It’s my turn to set the rules. We’re going back to basics. The only requirement is that any Day X post must ...