First Post (First Light?)

A happy evening to everybody!

Welcome to the Astronomical Adventures, a diary of an observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory (Arizona!). My name is Seth, and I'm here with Professor Doug Arion, Erin Martin, and Emily Schiavone, all of Carthage College in Wisconsin. The flight out of O'Hare this morning was long, but nonetheless uneventful. And it is just so very disappointing when you get off an airplane and it's 70 degrees out...
It's currently 7:19pm MST here on Kitt, and we're setting up the telescope for tonight's work. We're having a bit of difficulty making it point at a target accurately....but that's why we start early. Our overall "science" goal on this trip is to take OIII (that's Oxygen-3) images of planetary nebulae, in hopes of learning more about their structures. If that makes absolutely no sense to you, rest assured, I'll explain it better as the night and days go on.
Additionally, I promise to spend some time in later posts to talk about Kitt Peak, what's going on here, other stuff.....etc. Also? Pictures!
As a first post, I apologize that this is short, but the night is young! 7, 8-ish hours until bed time....Until next time, Ciao!