The East Asian Observatory wishes to extend a big mahalo to our summer intern Mailani Neal for her excellent work tracking temperature changes across the JCMT’s dish!
We are grateful for all her hard work and we wish her all the best as she enters her final year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York!
This gif shows an example of the telescope’s changing temperature over one night in June, 2018:
This analysis is important for understanding calibration observations and the effect of the weather on all the data we collect.
Mahalo, Mailani!
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