Happy new year from MagAO-X! The instrument is back in the lab, and today we opened the panels for the first time to find that no optics have been damaged! “Another happy landing,” as Obi-Wan would say.
On January 10, MagAO-X arrived at the University of Arizona. Southwest Rigging used the forklift to bring the boxes down to the Steward Observatory loading dock.
![Grumpy the forklifter](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200110_130741-1024x768.jpg)
![PI doing PI stuff](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200110_130810-1024x768.jpg)
![Why is there a pallet...on a pallet?](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200110_131218-1024x768.jpg)
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Eventually we managed to unpack MagAO-X and the electronics rack. We brought them up to the lab, rebuilt the clean room, and today we opened it up!
![Christmas came late!](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200124_102254-1024x768.jpg)
![Just pretend you don't see the plastic bags](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200124_114251-1024x768.jpg)
We are just about ready to cable up the instrument and turn everything on. Over the next two months, we will do a lot of software testing and install a few new components into the system. By April 10, MagAO-X will ship back to Chile and we will return to the desert for the next telescope run on May 3 – 10.