Today we woke up late, and slept much. But, as a result, lunch was postponed somewhat.. We headed to the observatory to make flatfield exposures.
High clouds started to roll in with the looks of wanting to stay fo a long time..
Later in the afternoon, we decided to go eat somewhere, because of the weather. Unfortunately, there is no open restaurants after lunch time within 1400m below us. But as we were finding this out, we met 8 stranded guys on 4 scooters that had run out of gas on one of them. We decided to help them. We tried putting the scooter inside the car to take it to a gas station, but it didn't fit inside. So we gave a lift to three of them, and the guy on the "gasolineless" scooter grabbed our car on the window to take it up-hill. We went to the observatory in search for a hose to get gasoline from the car to the scooter, but hoses were all very thick and long! So we got back to the road and helped them to reach the down-hill part. We ended up taking them to the nearest gasoline station, 30km away through the mountain road. All four scooters dancing happily in front us us, as we descended the mountain road TF-24 in direction to La Esperanza, with the hope of gasoline in mind, reminded me of a Spanish television series a long time ago called "Verano Azul".. I even remembered its music: too-roo to-ro-ro too-roo..
We took this opportunity to buy stuff to eat for our dinner.
We finally got back to the observatory at 21:00 or slightly later..
The sky was cloudy the whole time. We could only see a few blurry stars near the zenith. Not a good time for measurements. This night we did not open the dome..
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