[Peyton-observing] Observing tonight, problems closing the dome

[jegunn]

Thanks, all.

I will be away tomorrow, Elisa, but let us have a look at the
chain Friday?

--jim



On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Elisa Chisari wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Lehman, Waqas and I had a very successful observing night, around 30
> people showed up. Stadium lights were off. At the beginning it was quite
> cloudy but it cleared towards the end and we were able to see many open
> clusters, globular clusters, Bode's galaxy, Jupiter, Mizar, Aldebaran.
>
> Thanks to the grad students and postdocs that came too!
>
> We had some trouble closing the dome. The chain seems to be getting
> stuck on the right pulley. We need to look into this.
>
> Best,
>
> Elisa
>
>