Our second night on the sixty one inch was a great sucess. I learned much not only in the operation of Maxim DL but in a quick pseudo lesson on quantum mechanics from DA and a little insight in building telescopes.
We managed to process pictures of NGC 2022 using the oxygen three filters before closing down. They revealed what we suspected to exist: an outer most shell of gas exceptionally farther from the white dwarf than any visual photo on the internet showed. We also managed to get higher resolution photos of Jupiter which revealed an odd storm system not present yesterday. Our first pictures of Saturn have been taken and are waiting to be processed. Saturn gave us trouble once again; we had to manually find it since the database did not give us the correct coordinates. It's almost as.if Saturn is living up to it's pagan name sake....
I hope the little quirks we've been finding lead to interesting discoveries. Best case, nobel prize!
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