2015A Day 13: Happy Mother’s Day! – Extreme Wavefront Control Lab

To the Various Mothers!

Sigh — Tonight started out cloudy and we had some difficult times.

So here are some pictures for our various mothers:

for the mothers — Laird and Jared at El Pino, on our way up here

Happy MOTHERSboard DAYboard — Here was Jared searching through the cabinet for a spare motherboard last week

The light that shines but doesn't what? — Moon rise last week

The problem has been taken care of. — Last week we had a bird in the clean room… here it is in the vestibule as we were trying to chase it out. Later, Juan and Nelson patched up the hole and no more birds got in the clean room.

There was a big rain storm in northern Chile in March. The grass is green and growing on this typically brown mountain. Here are Yuri Beletsky’s beautiful photos:

Thanks Yuri — LCO Green 1 by Yuri Beletsky

So talented! — LCO Green 2 by Yuri Beletsky

And my photo:

From all the rain — The Baade telescope with rye grass growing along the path, and a river eroded into the path too

Quotes from last week:
Asking the observer on Baade about her night:
“How was your night?” -Katie
“Good, but we lost two hours to a FIRE issue.” -Gwen
“A fire issue?!?!?” -Katie
“Not fire, FIRE — Folded-port InfraRed Echellette!” -Gwen

Our new rain protocol is to put the moon screen at 82% to cover the shell:
“So that’s waterproof?” -Laird
“Well it’s the most waterproof spot…” -Povilas
“Actually Clio’s probably quite water proof. It would probably float.” -Laird

Night lunches:
“They wanted to know if we wanted empanadas… I think I just ordered us 14 sandwiches and ALL of the empanadas they currently have…” -Jared