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On a typical night, staff for each telescope will meet to have
dinner at around 5pm at HP then travel up to the summit
of the mountain. We then work throughout the night and
come back at around 8am to have breakfast and then go to
sleep. Since JCMT is not an optical telescope, sunrise does
not affect us. However, submillimetre telescopes are heavily
affected by precipitation, and cannot operate when this level
is too high. Last night it snowed heavily at the summit and all
telescopes were closed for the night. I have included some
photos from these last few nights – I hope you enjoy them.
Caroline Scott
Caroline Scott is a final year Astrophysics PhD student at
Imperial College London, and is currently doing a Predoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for
Astrophysics and a Research Fellowship at Harvard’s Institute
of Applied Computational Science. Twitter: Astro_Caz
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