Friday, 27 August 2010

Finally the trip to the WHT

Well the time has finally come. The family summer holiday is over, the caravan is safely back in storage, and I'm now rocketing along the TF-1 towards the north airport on tenerreefe in preparation for a short inter-island hopper flight to La Palm tomorrow morning and hence up to the WHT.

What had been going on since I last blogged about this goes roughly as follows: our French counterparts from Meudon spent most of July in Durham testing the optics; there was a mad scrabble to get the software stable (which I have to say I'm not happy with my software but it's usually the way of these things); the whole lot has been packed up into 9 big boxes and shipped to La Palma.

And now the fun begins.