Pictures	Kitt Peak	Hawaii	Mauna Kea

CTIO	LCO

Pictures from my four fun-filled nights observing with Mike-Fibers on the Magellan-Clay 6.5m telescope (the largest piece of glass I've ever used!). This was the most hands-on observing run that I've had. I got to plug fibers into aluminum plug plates mounted at the Nasmyth port every few hours. Words cannot describe how I felt seeing the Southern-Hemisphere sky for the first time. This included the brightness of the Milky Way, which extended from horizon to horizon, the seemingly unlimited number of bright stars in the sky, the LMC, the SMC, and Orion upside-down. I had the time of my life!

En route to Las Campanas Observatory	The coast	A fishing village.
Clay	Clay 6.5m	Twilight.
View of Magellan from the dorms.	One of my Mike-Fibers plug plates	Filter assembly
My filter	The fibers	Covering the fibers w/ aluminum foil
The dorms	Twilight again
Magellan	Magellan
Baade 6.5m.	The prettiest sunset	Part of the Shack-Hartmann analysis.
Plugging fibers	Enjoying sunset.	The Clay control room.
Me on the catwalk at sunset.	Carryall ride home
Amazing how in Chile you can weave between mountains and ocean within minutes.

Click the mosaics below for full resolution versions. The seams where the images were stitched are apparent, necessitating the need for background matching. They do bother me, but I'm not doing science with these, so they will stay this way for a while. :) The series of images in the first mosaic was taken during twilight, so the sky brightness was changing rapidly during the minute (or two) sequence.