MagAO-Classic posts

Based on the issues Jared has been having with the Adsec Supervisor harddrives, we decided to test booting off the Clio harddrive spare that Vanessa and I made a few runs back. Laird and I supervised the crew moving the ASM to the top. Mauricio and I began pumping down Clio. And ...

It’s been really cloudy the last 48 hours. There have been no vizcachas at the clean room. I found a couple on the north side of the telescope this morning though. The clouds were still around after sunset. Laird and Katie made it! Laird lost some luggage, and they’re both tired after a hectic trip, but ...

I spent my whole day working on computers — hard drive partitions and RAIDs and RAM. So I don’t have much to talk about. There is a new power line going in just west of the road to the 100 inch. I’m not sure, but my best guess is that it has something to ...

We’re back. Actually I’ve been back since yesterday, but after a long stressful trip with lots of delays and lost luggage I didn’t get around to a post yesterday. All of our stuff turned on and is working great. I did find a failed hard disk, but the RAID is already synched. Our new ...

2015B is upon us. I’m getting ready to leave in a couple days. My parents drove down from NM for a visit since I won’t be seeing them at any of the upcoming holidays. We hiked to the top of Blackett’s Ridge — a 1700-foot elevation gain — and it was a ...

President Michelle Bachelet addressing those celebrating the groundbreaking event for the GMT on the windy evening of November 11th.

On November 11th, I had the great pleasure of attending the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the GMT. It was a very windy, cold, but happy occasion. I’ll be posting a more complete update in the next 24 hours, including hopefully some of the photos that I was able to take during the celebrations.  The event was ...

I am happy to announce the acceptance of Magellan Adaptive Optics first-light observations of the exoplanet beta Pic b. Paper II by the Astrophysical Journal. This paper presents the 0.9-5 micron spectral energy distribution (SED) of young giant exoplanet beta Pic b. We carefully calibrated Clio (see the Appendix), analyzed our photometry, combined ...

MagAO have just spent the week at AO4ELT 4 = Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, 4th edition. The conference was held at the UCLA conference center at Lake Arrowhead, a very nice resort where the CfAO Fall Retreat is usually held. On Wednesday evening I went on a tour of Big Bear Solar Observatory ...

Hi MagAO fans… this planet discovery did not actually use MagAO (too bad!), but it includes MagAO team members Kate Follette and Katie Morzinski, and MagAO user/operator/blogger Kim Ward-Duong, and MagAO users Jenny Patience and Abhi Rajan, as well as involving our favorite technique of Extreme Exoplanet AO… so we thought you might be interested ...