MagAO-Classic posts

  • 2017 DAY 16: Good Luck MAGAO Team

    2017-02-17

    Angelica Leon

    2017 DAY 16: Good Luck MAGAO Team
    It is great to see you again, specially after last time… I hope you could get very good data on these nights, and weather helps for the time left, good luck guys, beware the moonlight And before leaving Chile, you should enjoy the beach!! Remember we are in summer And for these nights, when you are not working, ...
  • 2017A DAY 15: The Amazing Weather Predicting ASM

    2017-02-16

    Laird Close

    2017A DAY 15: The Amazing Weather Predicting ASM
    Tonight is my first calm night driving the AO system in 5 nights. It is great that everything in MagAO/VisAO/Clio is working well together again. Katie is getting great data and Kevin Wagner has joined us at Clay. I was having such an easy time running the AO that I was “volunteered” into ...
  • 2017A Day 14: Step On The Gas

    2017-02-15

    Jared Males

    2017A Day 14: Step On The Gas
    As Alex described yesterday, we had to make a major mid-run repair to our system. One of the most important components of our Pyramid wavefront sensor failed on Alycia’s 2nd to last night. So we had to light the bat signal, and, as usual, our Italian collaborators and the LCO crew ...
  • 2017A Day 13: Much excitement for first time users!

    2017-02-14

    Alex Greenbaum

    2017A Day 13: Much excitement for first time users!
    This was my first time at Magellan along with Felicity B. Hills, a grad student at U. Michigan. I feel like we’ve been truly inducted into the group of MagAO users, watching a very capable instrument team encounter difficult problems and solve them. Alycia graciously let us watch and follow along with her observations for ...
  • 2017A Day 12: Clio night

    2017-02-13

    Katie Morzinski

    2017A Day 12: Clio night
    Tonight Alex and Felicity got a chance to take some Clio data and calibrations. Alycia departs today — it was nice having her here — safe travels! The song of the day has embedding disabled: Lego Mariner’s Revenge
  • 2017A Day 11: Here We Go

    2017-02-12

    Jared Males

    Who’s up for a little troubleshooting?
  • 2017A Day 10: We Collaborate with Order and Workplace

    2017-02-11

    Alycia Weinberger

    2017A Day 10: We Collaborate with Order and Workplace
    It’s great to be back at LCO after a 15 month drought from observing here. That’s the longest I’ve gone without being here since 2009! All the same great people are still here, and it’s a pleasure to be back working with the staff and MagAO team. If you’re wondering about the title of the ...
  • 2017A Day 9: 10um

    2017-02-10

    Katie Morzinski

    2017A Day 9: 10um
    Alycia arrived yesterday and today was her first night. She brought a 10-micron camera to do some thermal imaging, including these pictures of me: Tonight went smoothly other than a brief power outage which meant Mauricio had to go turn the compressor back on. He also brought us some cake from Chef Andres! From last night which ...
  • 2017A Day 8: Vizzy day

    2017-02-09

    Ya-Lin Wu

    2017A Day 8: Vizzy day
    It has been a busy day. We were searching for planets hidden in young disks but suddenly got attacked by another DSP board failure. Luckily we quickly fixed the problem and closed the loop at an amazing 0.35 arcsecond seeing. Wonderful night. Let’s relax and see some viscachas.     I find this song quite interesting:
  • 2017A Day 7: Day 7

    2017-02-08

    Jared Males

    2017A Day 7: Day 7
    Astronomy happened. Stars were involved.