
[09:21:45] Alexandre Santerne: Thanks for following us ! End of the night. Time for astronomers observing #PaleRedDot to sleep.
[09:21:03] Guillem Anglada Escudé: anything you want to add to your audience?
[09:18:18] Guillem Anglada Escudé: ok. Yes. I’ll prepare a clean timeline later. Hopefully twitter comes back online so I can pull your text as well
[09:16:05] Alexandre Santerne: seeing during the observation: 1.3” – 1.4″
And the first spectrum!


[09:08:14] Guillem Anglada Escudé: yeah. Its good!
[09:08:04] Alexandre Santerne: snr@650nm = 65.3[09:07:46] Alexandre Santerne: exposition ended
The image on the right is Proxima on top of the optical fibre at the telescope focus. The same fibre goes all the way down to the spectrometer, which sits in the basement on top of the bedrock and lots of concrete
Integrating…

(not much to do for next 20 min, which is the exposure time…)
[08:49:51] Alexandre Santerne: flux level ~ 30%
[08:49:48] Guillem Anglada Escudé: cool
[08:46:41] Alexandre Santerne: exposure started
[08:46:36] Alexandre Santerne: focus ok
[08:43:07] Alexandre Santerne: checking focus
[08:39:31] Alexandre Santerne: pointing telescope …
UTC 08:38 Ambient of the ESO3.6m control room a few minutes before pointing #PaleRedDot
UTC 08:37. Two minutes to start pointing
UTC 08:32. Twitter is down (?!#@!) but we are still live on website! First spectrum in short. Go Alex!
Follow Alexandre Santerne @eso La Silla as the first spectrum of Proxima out of 60 is obtained.
Proxima rising at the end of the night
Sunset of Jan 18th from la Silla
Cool:D So how long do you think it’ll take to start seeing signs of planets?
After processing the observations, it won’t take long if there indeed is something to be found. But to be honest, that’s pretty much as accurate as we can be at the moment.