Today Laird, Jared, and I packed everything up in preparation for departing… and possibly not coming back for almost a year.
Jared was in charge of backing up all of our computers and archiving the VisAO data. We have 5 computers on the mountain: The WFS supervisor, the ASM supervisor, the VisAO supervisor, the VisAO camera computer, and the Clio camera computer. It’s a good thing he knows what he’s doing.
Laird and I supervised the ASM’s journey from the top of the mountain to the clean room in the ASB. This always makes me a little nervous. We had to wait until the afternoon to do it, because in the morning there were winds up to 33 mph, a bit too windy for shipping around such delicate equipment. But it went very well and the ASM is now safely in the clean room.
![Pic from Comm1](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_20121209_064602.jpg)
![Pic from Comm1](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_20121209_064627.jpg)
![Pic from Comm1](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_20121209_064711.jpg)
Laird and Dave attached the new dust covers to the NAS.
Jared and I did an inventory of our supplies so that we can remember what we need to re-stock next time.
![Pic from last week or so... I hardly took any pictures today!](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GoodbyeVizzy.jpg)
When I was walking down from the mountain tonight after doing a last sweep, I walked in the dark, and my eyes got adapted so that I could see my shadow by the crescent moon, and more and more stars appeared. The Magellanic Clouds really pop down here too.
Nov. 25th Comm1, but I also didn’t have any good night-time pictures (with my cell phone).