Zombie mode pretty much sums up today. That and caffeine. Most of the grad students here are dragging today after spending almost the entire last night observing. Starting at around 21:00, we stayed at the telescope until 4:30 the next morning. Most of us saw constellations that rose in the evening set before we went to bed.
We were doing a “Speckle Interferometry” lab for the observational astronomy class. This involves taking many short exposures of stars in an effort to characterize the turbulence in the atmosphere. We have all the data we need (finally, after 3+ nights at the telescope, being thwarted by clouds), and I’ll start the analysis soon. Once I’m into the data reduction, I’ll be writing up a description of it in more detail.
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