Our 24 hour MagAO-X clean up effort has just finished up around dinner time. MagAO-X is off of Clay. After sleeping various amounts of not-enough today, the whole team is more than ready for some sweet sweet shut eye. Hopefully now unbothered by nightmares of 2.0 arcsecond seeing or cart assembly.
![wearing sunglasses because they're already alseep. I forgot mine](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PXL_20221214_220638644-1024x576.jpg)
The night crew finished up their white dwarf spotting at sunrise, just in time to get to de-cabling on the catwalk. Laird and I, having slept some of the night (as apposed to none), swapped with them to get MagAO-X carted off the platform and back into it’s clean room home. We’re pretty proud about how quickly we got out of their hair! Instrument: moved, cables: piled, and megadesk: disassembled. Don’t ask us about the clean room. Enjoy the photos of the process, knowing that the whole gang is now sleeping soundly as I post:
![happier than expected for such an early morning job.](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PXL_20221214_101320088-1024x576.jpg)
!["send this one to your parents!"](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_8697-1024x768.jpg)
![by standing around watching we almost feel helpful](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2954-1024x768.jpg)
![You don't emotionally understand 5mph until you watch the IZUZU go down the hill](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_8704-1024x768.jpg)
![The stop sign is their favorite scratching post](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2957-1024x768.jpg)
![This mess looks like a job for tomorrow's crew.](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_8714-768x1024.jpg)
Tomorrow Laird and Logan head off to La Serena for their USA flights. (They’re good and ready to head home.) Jared, Avalon and I will be hanging around an extra day to tidy up some. The run’s not over till the last of us leave, I guess.
As a bonus, I’ve added some of the 100″ videos I took on the tour with Alycia. (I love telescopes moving almost as much as I love louvers opening.)
Song of the Day
Vintage Postmodern Jukebox actually has a bunch of even better covers you can check out, but I have a Song-of-the-day point to make.