Full Resolution This is a telescope trip, so let's jump right in! I landed in Cape Town in the late afternoon, and headed over to the hotel were we staying at, next to the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). Out in the grass in front of the hotel were a bunch of us already setting up. Most people arrived earlier in the day, and collected their telescopes from the shipper. Now were we were setting them up, finding any damaged or missing parts, and getting familar with the southern sky.
Cape Town isn't a dark site (SAAO moved all their research telescopes to Sutherland in the 1970s), but we don't need that tonight.
Here, Jeff Regester and Sam Strabala have just set up their telescope.
