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Open House January

Attendance (Open House): 27

Attendance (Observing Group): Tara, Matt, Gabriel, Roy, Azzan

Date & Time: 1/5/22 1700-2230.

Spaces Occupied: 401, Control Room, Dome

Achievements

  1. cleaned up and prepped space (1700-1900) - tara & roy

  2. displayed tara's current event slides 1900-1930

  3. gave coherent talk on space 1930-2030 -roy

  4. gave a mostly correct description of war(m) room operations -Matt 2030-2100

  5. took 6-7 folks to the dome and showed the the primary mirror, secondary mirror and where the gam is supposed to go lol -tara 2030-2100

  6. discussed GAM and need for good spectro-polarization measurements to help understand evolution of (bio)chemistry in early SS - roy 2030-2100

  7. Chatted with attendees and closed-up

Notes/ToDo/Wishlist

  1. Need to clean up control room.

  2. Need to develop observation slideshow for OH nights

  3. Small metal cart is annoying.

  4. Need to figure out next steps with AstroPol

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Direct Questions/Concerns to Roy Prouty (roy.prouty@umbc.edu)