Automated operation

The Polarbear receiver with operating bolometers ran continuously as the HTT scanned the sky all night last night. We all left it to get some sleep, but as of dawn, all systems appear to be working. As you can see from the dawn photograph, the weather was imperfect by morning. We'll have to look at the data to see how opaque the atmosphere was during the night. Jupiter will rise above an elevation angle of 20 degrees in 5 minutes, and the telescope will start observing it as soon as it does