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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

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11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 22: I am a Meat Popsicle Another MagAO-X run in the books. Overall a successful one too. We got lots of new stuff working, and had several very good nights with some exciting discoveries. Great work folks. Now get to work on your data and maybe you’ll get a PhD. This was one of the few times, however, that I’m feeling …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 22: I am a Meat Popsicle Another MagAO-X run in the books. Overall a successful one too. We got lots of new stuff working, and had several very good nights with some exciting discoveries. Great work folks. Now get to work on your data and maybe you’ll get a PhD. This was one of the few times, however, that I’m feeling …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 21: MagAO-X Wrapped If you take a step back and really think about it, the way we celebrate birthdays is pretty weird. Wearing a conical paper hat? Lighting a small fire atop some food and then immediately blowing it out? Sitting awkwardly while everyone in a room sings to you? If you think a little too hard about …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 21: MagAO-X Wrapped If you take a step back and really think about it, the way we celebrate birthdays is pretty weird. Wearing a conical paper hat? Lighting a small fire atop some food and then immediately blowing it out? Sitting awkwardly while everyone in a room sings to you? If you think a little too hard about …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 20: you can see yourself out I regret to inform you, dear readers, that things did not get better. This is not a happy story. Your brave AO operators do not triumph over the atmosphere, because… well it’s a natural phenomenon with a mean streak. We don’t pull an underdog move, miraculously rally, and through the power of friendship get phenomenal …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 20: you can see yourself out I regret to inform you, dear readers, that things did not get better. This is not a happy story. Your brave AO operators do not triumph over the atmosphere, because… well it’s a natural phenomenon with a mean streak. We don’t pull an underdog move, miraculously rally, and through the power of friendship get phenomenal …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 18: The ‘whoa’ day Hello guys, is me again eh eh. It’s very good to see you!! I was not here for your last run so I kind of missed you. This run in particular felt a bit weird because you’ve been here for such a loooong time. I met the first shift and the new team members (at …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 18: The ‘whoa’ day Hello guys, is me again eh eh. It’s very good to see you!! I was not here for your last run so I kind of missed you. This run in particular felt a bit weird because you’ve been here for such a loooong time. I met the first shift and the new team members (at …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 17 – The ballad of the guac and the Yorch At the usual Chilean diner Satisfying our guac desires, Huge chips to dip at hand To face a long night ahead. “My comrade won’t join tonight” Said Sebastiaan with a sigh, “I shall bring him food at once, For EFC to have a chance”. As he ordered a full plate “His name is Josh”, he said. Yorch Clay – wrote the chef, For he did …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 17 – The ballad of the guac and the Yorch At the usual Chilean diner Satisfying our guac desires, Huge chips to dip at hand To face a long night ahead. “My comrade won’t join tonight” Said Sebastiaan with a sigh, “I shall bring him food at once, For EFC to have a chance”. As he ordered a full plate “His name is Josh”, he said. Yorch Clay – wrote the chef, For he did …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 16: Excellent Extreme Experimenting and Engineering Today the honour of blogging is all mine (Matthijs). A few of us went up before dinner to start preparing for a busy night full of experimental engineering observations (in particular Sebastiaan after he had stayed up until 10.30am to align VisX again). During daylight we of course managed to enjoy the company of some …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 16: Excellent Extreme Experimenting and Engineering Today the honour of blogging is all mine (Matthijs). A few of us went up before dinner to start preparing for a busy night full of experimental engineering observations (in particular Sebastiaan after he had stayed up until 10.30am to align VisX again). During daylight we of course managed to enjoy the company of some …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 15: Close Encounters of the Laird Kind Tonight was another Laird night which means more of our favorite target, PDS 70! Could PDS 70 have alien life? Will we find a new planet? Are the answers to these questions always ‘no’? Who’s to say. We will get back to the PDS 70 excitement shortly, but first, a recap of the day’s festivities: …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Bonus: Gracias, grupo MegAO-X =) A big hello to the GREAT MegAO-X team, great in every way… It’s a well-prepared, friendly, and numerous group. It was really nice working with you, especially the music chosen for the announcements of the program.Thank you for the conversations, il sottobicchiere, and the stickers. You still have a few night, keep up, all for …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Bonus: Gracias, grupo MegAO-X =) A big hello to the GREAT MegAO-X team, great in every way… It’s a well-prepared, friendly, and numerous group. It was really nice working with you, especially the music chosen for the announcements of the program.Thank you for the great conversations, il sottobicchiere, and the stickers. You still have a few night, keep up, all …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 14: bug buses, homebound planes, and fantastic foxes We are happy to report the successful and uneventful homecomings of the first half of our observing crew. Uneventful in that none was stranded in a city they didn’t mean to be in. Successful in that they ended in the warm embraces of various roommate species. For the half of us who remain, the weather …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X Day 14: bug buses, homebound planes, and fantastic foxes We are happy to report the successful and uneventful homecomings of the first half of our observing crew. Uneventful in that none was stranded in a city they didn’t mean to be in. Successful in that they ended in the warm embraces of various roommate species. For the half of us who remain, the weather …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X Day 14: bug buses, homebound planes, and fantastic foxes We are happy to report the successful and uneventful homecomings of the first half of our observing crew. Uneventful in that none was stranded in a city they didn’t mean to be in. Successful in that they ended in the warm embraces of various roommate species. For the half of us who remain, the weather …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 13: Stick with it I have an unfortunate secret to reveal: we have been operating MagAO-X in 2024B mode this whole time. When the team first arrived, a wizened mystic emerged from the Room Behind the Kitchens and croaked out a prophecy: Hasta que enstiques el instrumento tendras visión astronómica de baja calidad. Unfortunately, nobody in the advance guard …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 13: Stick with it I have an unfortunate secret to reveal: we have been operating MagAO-X in 2024B mode this whole time. When the team first arrived, a wizened mystic emerged from the Room Behind the Kitchens and croaked out a prophecy: Hasta que enstiques el instrumento tendras visión astronómica de baja calidad. Unfortunately, nobody in the advance guard …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 12: Step Up to the Plate Like our new friend Emi mentioned in her blog post, there were a lot of us on the mountain yesterday. Josh, Eden and I rolled up to LCO that morning after a smooth trip from Tucson, and Matthijs joined us later that afternoon. As fun as it was to have (nearly) the whole crew down …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 12: Step Up to the Plate Like our new friend Emi mentioned in her blog post, there were a lot of us on the mountain yesterday. Josh, Eden and I rolled up to LCO that morning after a smooth trip from Tucson, and Matthijs joined us later that afternoon. As fun as it was to have (nearly) the whole crew down …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 11: New kid on the block! Hi everyone! I’m Emi, a second year undergrad at U of Michigan. This is my very first time observing, and blogging! And basically being nocturnal. I’m learning that we are the largest group for MagAO-X yet… so here’s to all 14 of us! Today, we got to go on a tour of the Henrietta Swope …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 11: New kid on the block! Hi everyone! I’m Emi, a second year undergrad at U of Michigan. This is my very first time observing, and blogging! And basically being nocturnal. I’m learning that we are the largest group for MagAO-X yet… so here’s to all 14 of us! Today, we got to go on a tour of the Henrietta Swope …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 10: It’s so over While most of our heroes were still sleeping, Sebastiaan and I went up the telescope to perform some EFC calibration. At first the dark hole digging didn’t seem to work, and it took quite a bit to fix it. Fortunately, just before dinner time we finally managed! Tonight, the MagAO-X team experienced yet again an …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 10: It’s so over While most of our heroes were still sleeping, Sebastiaan and I went up the telescope to perform some EFC calibration. At first the dark hole digging didn’t seem to work, and it took quite a bit to fix it. Fortunately, just before dinner time we finally managed! Tonight, the MagAO-X team experienced yet again an …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 9: A clear sky is not enough We haven’t seen a cloud yet on this run, but that doesn’t mean we’re sitting pretty. MagAO-X is highly optimized for highly optimal conditions, and these ain’t that. Don’t take it from me, take it from the conditions plot: After a promising start, everything went to heck. I’d love to tell you about the stuff …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

11 months ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 9: A clear sky is not enough We haven’t seen a cloud yet on this run, but that doesn’t mean we’re sitting pretty. MagAO-X is highly optimized for highly optimal conditions, and these ain’t that. Don’t take it from me, take it from the conditions plot: After a promising start, everything went to heck. I’d love to tell you about the stuff …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

1 year ago

MagAO-X 2025A Day 7: Seeing green First off, a special congratulations to Parker for being offered the NSF GRF award! That’s awesome. And it means that the panel that reviewed his application is just as excited about drilling holes in the Magellan-Clay telescope to mount the accelerometers as we are. It sounds a little jarring, but it’s for the Greater Good, …

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Extreme Wavefront Control Lab – Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.

@xwcl.science.web.brid.gy

1 year ago

MagAO-X 2025 Day 6: Dawn of the Polarimeter The best way to start this blog is being thankful for the paths that lead me to Tucson, UofA, XWCL, MagAO-X and professor Laird Close. I had an great experience as a visiting postdoc in this academic and cultural very rich enviroment. Of course, none of this would be possible without the generous support of …

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