The five best things that happened to me and Emily Cunningham during our 12 am – 6 am shift at the 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory last night:<\/p>\n
5. Mastering the art of filling the dewar with liquid nitrogen.<\/p>\n
4. Overcoming a myriad of technical issues, including the fact that the telescope would not move at 6 am.<\/p>\n
3. Not falling asleep.<\/p>\n
2. Managing to obtain several good images of Segue II, a candidate dwarf galaxy, for science!<\/p>\n
1. Taking exposures of the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula in four different filters. We hope to combine these to make a beautiful picture when we get back to Haverford!<\/p>\n
Better than all of these things: not finding scorpions or snakes in our beds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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