MagAO-X is here on the mountain, and we have been working to unpack it since its arrival at 10am. As such, anyone looking for coherent prose in what follows is warned to expect disappointment.
We got pics tho.
Unpacking is dirty work, but it’s all worth it.
Our hands look like this:
So his hands can look like this:
Today was very “astronomy with hard hats”
But also “astronomy with cleanroom gowns”
There were occasional meetings of the two, even:
“Maggie” unpacked his new grating for VIS-X:
It was shiny:
The P.I. hugged his electronics rack once again:
MagAO-X let it all hang out:
The success of MagAO-X quite literally rests on students:
There was also a small earthquake, but it’s all good.
Song of the Day
We had 1975, now we got 1977. Ana Tijoux is a Chilean-French MC I used to listen to long before I ever visited Chile.
Trying to rap along with that is challenge mode for maintaining your Spanish-speaking skills. (I used to be able to…)
As a bonus, here’s her 2020 protest song that taught me “guanaco” is slang for the water cannon police use to disperse protests in Chile (because they both spit at you, get it?)