Apr. 17th, 2006

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What 24 hours in the life of an astronomer on an observing run consists of:

12:30pm wake up, shower, make it to cafeteria which is open 1-2
1-2 eat lunch
2-5 "free time". check work email, check personal email, read book
5:30 dinner
6:00 get to telescope, start taking calibration data
7:45 start taking data
midnightish eat sandwish
3am eat other sandwich
6am close up telescope due to dawn
6:30 arrive back in dorm room. faceplant into pillow

lather, rinse, repeat for 5 days.

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