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[ellarien]

It's been a busy day on Mount Wilson. There was a lot of smoke on the webcam from early morning, and a LOT of smoke by lunchtime. After lunch someone put up a proper mirror of the poor oversubscribed webcam; about an hour later the observatory went offline. The director was ready for this and evacuated his blog to Georgia State; apparently most of the smoke was from backfires set by firefighters who were back on the mountain, and they think one of the backfires took out the internet connection. Mid-afternoon there was much excitement over a big water-drop, which I managed to miss despite juggling three or four live video feeds -- one of which cut away to NASA TV just as things were getting interesting.

Cautious optimism, I think.