Today the day was spent inside the house most of the time. With the exception of a Delicious lunch of Rancho Canario and Sollomillo de Cerdo con salsa de guayaba at the observatory's residency.
(hmm, so far I have not said much about the food there.. It deserves a post! Soon, perhaps)
Well, other than staying at home watching some good archived TV series on the portuguese television RTP website, we also solved a few setbacks.. We took a few flats for the last data we had collected, so that we could upload it to the server in a "complete package".. We set up a remote desktop connection to the laptop, so that we could stay at home during bad weather and control the slow upload process.. The catalog of objects we use for was updated with useful info for finding targets.. The log of what we did so far was tweeked with a graphical map of when all targets were observed.. I thought a bit on how to increase the height of some wheeled ladder so that a person can peek through the finder with the telescope pointing very low, and its implications on how we make flats.. And I will now look into an alternative method of pointing a telescope without using the finder at the "impossibly high" position.
Oh well, but our desired snow is unlikely to come. However, temperature is really cold, and the car was already covered in ice a while ago! These graphs plot humidity, wind speed, and temperature over here.. the temperature graph is white when the Celcius degrees go below zero.. Let's wait until morning to see what we have outside!
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