Flying solo!
Wahaaay! Some fool has certified me as “trained”, so I’m now in control of a multi-million pound telescope. As far as I can tell, the only difference from last week is that now I’m responsible for the mistakes, of which I’m allowed 5 min per night. Great.
At least the computer is intelligent enough not to let me point downwards. Yes, I have tried that one. I got local time, local siderial time and universal time muddled. One is in greenwich, one is the fixed “hour” of the heavens, looking straight up, and one is on my watch. Simple enough you’d think.
Seriously though, it’s nice to be fully trained. I have two more shifts in the next month and a half to make sure that I don’t forget how to work the beast, and then I can have a proper break (in the office).