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This is crazy
Written on June 19, 2008
We’re guiding on Vega. I mean, we’re guiding on Vega. It’s first-magnitude. It should saturate the detector in a 0.1-second exposure. But in a 1-second exposure, we’re only getting 20,000 counts. That’s nuts. It’s really cloudy out.
Wait a sec, we just lost guidance. On a first-magnitude star. Theoretically this telescope should be able to guide on things down to 14th magnitude, so that means there’s a lot of extinction going on.
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