This morning the early team showed up to hear in the weather briefing that there would be clouds all morning. Good thing the cryostat is ready for its day of many helium fills, or they might not have had things to do (or, actually, there’s still lots to do). Since the sun sensors require low […]
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Yesterday Matt took a ton of pictures (and I took a few). Most of them feature Elio, often without a shirt, or Natalie. The main business of the day was rearranging antennas to make room on the top of the sun shields to attach the old/omnidirectional sun sensor (OSS) up there too. Joseph also mounted […] Yesterday Natalie and Laura had the gondola taken outside again to calibrate the sun sensors and the magnetometer. We arrived at 6:30, and the CSBF folks all came in to collect some weekend overtime. We were out well before the sun got too high but had to wait a bit for the sun to dissipate […] I was noticing yesterday that I didn’t feel like taking many photos, and since it was Saturday everybody was in slow mode anyway. So, I had the foresight to save some cryostat pre-closing photos taken (presumably by Matt) while I was off train riding. I also present a few assorted bits actually from yesterday. (Quick, […] Laura, Natalie, and I spent yesterday morning and afternoon taking a relaxing historical train ride on the Texas State Railroad. It runs twice a week between Palestine and Rusk with an old diesel engine and an older steam engine. The steam engine is running the wrong route this month, so we settled for the diesel—we […] Yesterday morning (or, rather, the day before yesterday, since I forgot to publish this yesterday) Laura and Natalie were testing the sun sensors using the fake sun. I went exploring outside and found a black widow, which was cool because I had never seen one before. Then in the afternoon Matt and I (mostly Matt) […] With the cryostat warm and off the gondola, it was opened up yesterday for diagnostics and repairs. Matt forgot the bring his camera back with him so I (with some assistance) had to take enough pictures for the both of us. In the morning we stopped to finally explore the Hood Ornament of Death—a sculpture […] With the long weekend over and the CSBF folks back from vacation, we had our second chance yesterday to take BLAST outside. This, of course, meant the reappearance of Tiny Tim. During our time in the sun we rotated the gondola (or, rather, Nick rotated it and a bunch of people made a show of […] Yesterday was the last day of a mostly quiet weekend (if you hadn’t figured that out from the previous couple days of non-work-related photos). I have almost no photos from yesterday, but I present this one in hopes that it might appease followers. It sure appeases me. Yesterday marked my one month anniversary here in Palestine, and nobody else in the original bunch has stayed here continuously. I have been here the longest. To celebrate the occasion, the city put on a huge fireworks display in the evening—or maybe they were celebrating some other, more obscure anniversary. Being a Sunday, a holiday, […] |
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