mountain top storms

my stint observing here is finished, time to head back down to La Serena. in 6 nights i managed to observe anything with gemini for about 2 nights total. not much to do sitting inside clouds during snowstorms! (un)fortunately, it only snowed on the mountain top where i slept during one night and it all melted during the day while i slept. enjoy some photos...


welcomed by a storm.


my fox friends were absent during the storms of the first few nights, but appeared again after the storms passed.



that's gemini on the right and SOAR on the left.



cloudy nights make for horribly ambiguous observing conditions, but they certainly provide beautiful sunsets!


you can barely make out the 4m CTIO dome in this one...


the spiffy control room.




some pictures from clear nights in the past....