A very smooth night at NBTW (Next Best Telescope in the World). Many thanks to Roberto A. for helping me relearn many things last night. It has been 8 years since I did a real solo observing run here.
Dorm-related issue --- In the luxury suite of Room 101, the wind (doubtful), a terromoto (maybe?), or a human (likely, but not I) managed to push the sliding door completely off its track. It is wedged so tightly shut that my small attempts today to push it back did not make any difference. I did not want to use so much force that I would break something, e.g., the glass door. It would be great if someone could come by with a big hammer, crowbar, blow torch, or some other tool that would move the door back on track. Daily tea and muffin moments are so much better on the patio. Any time after 3pm on any day would be fine.
Notable 5-star moment --- today the kitchen staff delivered to me two frozen lasagnas and some frozen vegetables that we left in the ice cream cooler in June.
Total Times | Time Observed | Time Engineering | Time lost technical | Time lost weather | Time lost other | Total Program Time |
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2025-08-13 | 11.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.5 |
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Notable 5-star moment --- today the kitchen staff delivered to me two frozen lasagnas and some frozen vegetables that we left in the ice cream cooler in June. All the stars to the kitchen crew for thinking about us!
Because it was clear with good seeing all night, I made many changes to the observing queue so that 33 targets could be observed. Here is an attempt at the full change list:
* added TIC 386951836
* added delta Sco
* added GaiaDR3_2442...
* added HIP006365
* added RKS0041-0131
* added RKS0124-2615A
* added RKS0138+2626
* added RKS0307-2813A
* added RKS0337-1056AB
* added BAT99 42
* removed HIP114941 (4 visits) --- waiting for PI confirmation on best multi-night observing sequence and we might get snow tomorrow
* removed T0270406298 --- can wait, so traded for time-critical objects
I started doing some mild cleaning in the observing room and still didn't break anything (yet).