We woke up around 9:20 and left one hour and-a-half later. We said goodbye to people at the residency and drove down to La Laguna to find something to eat before going to the airport.
Now, while writing this on the flight from Tenerife to Barcelona, I wonder how will Rémi get along for the next month?
Rémi is a French student, with his university and supervisor in Canada. He came from music's "do, re, mi" before deciding to make his PhD in astrophysics :) -- Not everything is impossible! He has already been in an observatory in Chile, yet from my interaction with him, I believe he has had no physical personal telescope and did not yet know very well how to point such a telescope by hand up to now. Also he very little experience in looking through an eyepiece and matching what is visible with a chart, and in astronomy's visual observation, "seeing" faint stars is not just "looking" at them...
We only had time to practice all this for two targets, and on the first one (WR140) I did not allow him much practice as it was important to get the spectra. So with such short practice time, how will Rémi get along?
Now, while writing this on the flight from Tenerife to Barcelona, I wonder how will Rémi get along for the next month?
Rémi is a French student, with his university and supervisor in Canada. He came from music's "do, re, mi" before deciding to make his PhD in astrophysics :) -- Not everything is impossible! He has already been in an observatory in Chile, yet from my interaction with him, I believe he has had no physical personal telescope and did not yet know very well how to point such a telescope by hand up to now. Also he very little experience in looking through an eyepiece and matching what is visible with a chart, and in astronomy's visual observation, "seeing" faint stars is not just "looking" at them...
We only had time to practice all this for two targets, and on the first one (WR140) I did not allow him much practice as it was important to get the spectra. So with such short practice time, how will Rémi get along?
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