Tonight was great. Good AO loop, good weather, good science. Last night, though, the internet was down for a few hours in the middle of the night, so we weren’t able to investigate the airglow until tonight, which we saw last night as fringing on the all-sky cam. Yuri Beletsky, Magellan Instrument Support Scientist and Astrophotographer, shared with us the following images he took of the airglow at LCO:
https://500px.com/photo/27927395/amazing-airglow-by-yuri-beletsky
https://500px.com/photo/81325491/airglow-and-the-milky-way-by-yuri-beletsky
Check them out, they’re gorgeous pix!
Yuri also shared with us this link describing the phenomenon of airglow.
In our cell-phone-camera pictures, you can see some fog from a couple days ago (the terrible horrible no good very cloudy night) at dawn, reminiscent of some of the fog Yuri saw in his Amazing Airglow pic:
And some more goings-on:
Typical breakfasts 1 and 2 — like hobbits!
