Astro Projects for a Shutdown

It's fairly evident that shelter-in-place is here to stay for quite a while. The state continues to feel that it will not be able to prevent a blowup from happening sometime around mid summer, at which time the hospitals may be seriously beyond their capacity. They are working to increase capacity so that when the crunch comes no one will have to go without any medical care they need. Will they succeed? We probably won't know until June or July.

That means it's likely to be solo astronomy until August. What's a person to do from a bright sky-site?

I have several projects I can work on:

1. Mirrors. I believe I have the supplies on hand for the polishing and figuring of several mirrors (one each of 6", 8", and 10")
2. Meteors. I can always set up my meteor detection system and start collecting data. More problematic is analyzing that data, but I may be able to program a sloppy workaround for having to visually inspect hundreds of images. 
3. Daytime Observing. Night observing is difficult here as the light pollution is awful, and in the last few years trees have grown to take away even more of my sky. Rather than fight that, it might make more sense to move to daytime observing. Targets include the Sun, planets, and brighter stars. An interesting question is daytime visibility in terms of star magnitude and angular separation from the Sun.