The ASM and NAS are on the telescope, but, alas, we aren’t quite ready to go on sky. The big news is that, with our usual indispensable help from Alfio Puglisi, we managed to turn on and control the adaptive secondary mirror using our brand new 64 bit computers. Welcome to 2003 or so MagAO! For those of you that didn’t stay up all night, Alfio fixed the Housekeeper_gui bug, and we closed the loop on read-noise with 1e-4 gains. Everything appears to be working.
Here’s the ASM being installed:
![New kid.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-15.27.31.jpg)
The theme of this run is modernization. The work on Clio continues:
![Mystery Man and Clio Girl.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-15.45.10.jpg)
Last time we were here, it was very green, almost lush. Not so much now.
![Still amazing.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.54.08_small.jpg)
But there’s still plenty of life around the mountain.
![Banzai!](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.28.58.jpg)
![Banzai!](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.29.22.jpg)
![Evidence of rains in the past.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.57.46.jpg)
![Also pretty flowerish.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.50.35.jpg)
![So color. Very purp.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.51.12.jpg)
![Very interesting.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.52.39.jpg)
![Still cool.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-13.59.42.jpg)
![MagAO is evidence that crap lasts for a long time in this environment.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-14.01.00.jpg)
![Not an obstacle.](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-14.02.08.jpg)
![Look at those lucky bastards on their way home already!](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-22-19.26.22.jpg)
Since I started my changeover to the night schedule, I went to bed and didn’t get up until lunch. I slept for more than 13 hours.
R.I.P. Avicii.