Afternoon, Day 3

Hi everybody~

Sorry for the lack of late postings last night. Clouds, no clouds, clouds, dome shut, dome open, no clouds....it was a goofy night. In the end, we ended up finishing a run on the Triangulum galaxy, M33, that we had started the night previous. Additionally, we nabbed an hour and a half worth of Hydrogen-Alpha (a special filter) exposure on IC434, or, more famously, the Horsehead Nebula. We're running some flats in the dome right now, and trying to sort out our data so we can back it up onto our drives for the journey back to Wisconsin. Tonight's target is going to be the Helix Nebula, a large planetary nebula where we can go back to our original goal of examining structure using the OIII filter. But for now, we're going to go walk around, and I'll grab some photos of the other telescopes on the mountain. More later, Ciao!