Social Self-distancing
Monday 2020/3/30
Found out another acquaintance had died, this time not from the virus. Rest well Marc. Marked science reports.
Tuesday 2020/3/31

More marking today. Looked over presentation for interview.
Wednesday 2020/04/01

Student mentor session in morning, remote job interviewing afternoon. It went well.
Thursday 2020/04/02

Getting ready for the Icon ConserveAtHome talk [YouTube link]. Gave that shortly after finding out I didn’t get the job from previous day. As expected. Imaged Venus and the Pleiades
Friday 2020/04/03

Lazy day. Went for a run. Imaged Venus and the Pleiades again, did a better job this time.
![](https://affable-lurking.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Venus_and_Pleiades-RGB-session_1-mod-St-1024x686.jpeg)
Saturday 2020/04/04
Did some work in the garden, chopped wood, cleaned out the small shed. Took two hours of exposures of M101 – pinwheel galaxy. Very faint, needs a lot more time for good results.
![](https://affable-lurking.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/M101-RGB-session_1-mod-cbg-St-50pc-scale-1024x766.jpeg)
Sunday 2020/04/05
Started planning a series of videos for conservation people.