10-30-2015, 12:24 AM
"Against the majority of PW that can't keep focus on a topic beyond the OP, it looks like the "work", or more specifically, site leveling isn't going to start back up until next spring. The night temperature is dropping fast, so snow at the summit is probably not far off."
Surely you mean the night time average temperature is slowly changing from just above the freezing point to roughly freezing? The rapid changes tend to occur at sunset at all times of the year. Always a challenge to handle conditions in order to get good image quality, but the experts have found a way. What's your preferred way to handle focus and seeing changes at that time of the day? I'm sure I can learn something from you.
Makes you wonder why heavy engineering still happens at the observatories during the winter, but what the hell do I know? You're the expert.
"Having observed the short attention spans in south Puna for over 4 years now, by next spring, this will be another issue going from causing the imminent and horrible death of thousands through cancer and poison, to most people on Pahoa village road not remembering what TMT stood for. That will be at the same time all the people watching will be occurring, as Leilani, Nanawale, Kalapana, Seaview, et al are detoured through "downtown" Pahoa village."
Perhaps I'll remind you of this prediction next spring and see if you share that same short attention span. You know what, I think I will. It'll give me enough time to decipher what you wrote. "All the people watching will be occurring"?
Surely you mean the night time average temperature is slowly changing from just above the freezing point to roughly freezing? The rapid changes tend to occur at sunset at all times of the year. Always a challenge to handle conditions in order to get good image quality, but the experts have found a way. What's your preferred way to handle focus and seeing changes at that time of the day? I'm sure I can learn something from you.
Makes you wonder why heavy engineering still happens at the observatories during the winter, but what the hell do I know? You're the expert.
"Having observed the short attention spans in south Puna for over 4 years now, by next spring, this will be another issue going from causing the imminent and horrible death of thousands through cancer and poison, to most people on Pahoa village road not remembering what TMT stood for. That will be at the same time all the people watching will be occurring, as Leilani, Nanawale, Kalapana, Seaview, et al are detoured through "downtown" Pahoa village."
Perhaps I'll remind you of this prediction next spring and see if you share that same short attention span. You know what, I think I will. It'll give me enough time to decipher what you wrote. "All the people watching will be occurring"?