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20250124

Time

ES 1630- MS 2100- GS

Attendance

ES: Sarah, Krishna, Roy MS: Sterling, Dimitry GS: Percy, Nick

Spaces Occupied

Goals

Equipment Used

Scope Camera Focus
Main
FinderASI 482N/A

Frame Table

Time Observed Source Name Filter Int Time [s] Gain Airmass Mag (filter) RA [h] DEC [deg] Source Type Scope Purpose Notes
YYYYmmddTHHMM Object Filter time gain airmass mag(V) HH DD type Scope Purpose tracking? Others?
YYYYmmddTHHMM Venus u,g,r,i,z 50ms 10 airmass mag(V) HH DD type Scope Astropol tracking? Others?
YYYYmmddTHHMM HD 25443 g,i 500ms 10 airmass mag(V) HH DD type Scope Astropol tracking? Others?
YYYYmmddTHHMM HD 21447 g,i 500ms 10 airmass mag(V) HH DD type Scope Astropol tracking? Others?
20240125T0645 OP 313 r, g 500ms 10 airmass mag(V) HH DD type Scope Astropol tracking? Others?

Log

  1. Roy tried to remember the start-up procedure (mostly worked)
  2. Removed ASI 2600 from main scope, waiting for Ian to install AstroPol in strument
  3. Roy made changes to add_blog thingy (ask Roy; not important for observing) that fixed the creation of new blog posts (we think)
  4. There were pointing issues, sorted it by adding coords manually
  5. Used Next Object position several times
  6. It was cloudy after 9 Pm
  7. Percy arrives at 0200, Nick arrives at 0300
  8. Percy, Nick, and Dimitri begin a 4 hour-long capture for PICSII2
  9. 0651 - beginning shutdown procedures
    1. keeping PICSII2 on the main scope
    2. confirmed the completion of captures, exiting the realVNC viewing application and shutting down like usual

ToDo

Notes

When closing mirror doors, top-left monitor goes blank for a second or so. Likely a shared-power issue. 0600 - Guiding software begins to malfunction and make noise - most likely in response to daylight obscuring the target object

Weather

Data