Today, Andrew and I aligned every mirror facet on T4. It took most of the day, near 5:30 we were done and I drove up to the Ridge for the first time, snapping a nice sunset image. After supper, I drove back down because there are two other people around who are working with something called the Road Laser which looks at atmospheric disturbances, and given that they had the telescopes on, we (Andrew and I) had to man the control room. We wrapped that up at midnight, the day started at 9.
There wasn't much going on in the control room, we were mostly just there to turn off the array if anything went wrong. There was one Gamma-ray Burst Alert (which ordinarily we would slew to and start taking data on) but it was too low on the horizon, so instead, I went outside and took some nice telescope images with my camera. Attached below are the highlights of the day, captions to come when I'm not super sleepy.
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