soapbox

just finished my first night of observing. aside from the usual pointing glitch i always encounter on my first night of a run, and the horrible seeing for a couple hours, it went pretty smoothly. i’m staying at the 2.4m for now, so on my way back up from the 1.3m, i noticed i had time to run in to get my camera and catch the sunrise over the mountains way off in the distance, which i’ve never gotten before. as i stood there waiting for the sun to rise, i suddenly saw a flash over the mountains. i saw the green flash! it was so much clearer to me this way that it was in fact green, since i hadn’t been half-blinding myself by watching the sun to see when it had all but disappeared. so i highly recommend, if you should ever find yourself in a place where the horizon is low and far enough away (ocean, mountain tops), do either stay up for sunrise or get up for it once, because the green flash is much more enjoyable in the morning.

i tried to catch a pic of the flash, but i was so surprised to suddenly see it that i don’t think i even had a prayer of catching it. i’ll load the pics onto my computer later and check it out. i might also post of pic of the recent additions to the place. specifically, to the lounge/kitchen area in each observatory.

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