I just got back to the US on Friday after a three(ish) week stint in Chile, which was a bit of a whirlwind between observatory activities and scheduling too much fun and missing not one but two international flights. To... Continue Reading →
Getting straight to the point, last week we finally installed the test camera onto the telescope! A huge milestone for the project, although it really should be called a kilometerstone since we're in Chile. Minor quibbles. This smaller camera is... Continue Reading →
Last weekend, I competed in the mixed pairs division of a rookie crossfit competition with my climbing (and crossfit) friend Jorge, whose name I originally thought was "Hor-hay" but turns out that most of his friends call him "George" (pronounced... Continue Reading →
It's incredibly easy to avoid trees when skiing in the mountains outside of Santiago, because there aren't any. As someone who grew up zig-zagging through snowy pine trees on the east coast of the US and has since graduated to... Continue Reading →
Back in January I wrote a post about my goals for the year, so I thought it might be fun to take a look and see how things stand now that the year is halfway over. Well, slightly over halfway... Continue Reading →
In a strange twist of fate, the one person who is mostly likely to leave a party awkwardly early in order to go to bed (a.k.a. me) was tasked with staying up all night at the observatory to help with... Continue Reading →
Margaux Rhymes with Fargo 