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Time

Attendance

Sarah, Sterling, Saisri, Bhanu, Nick, Percy

Spaces Occupied

401, Control Room, Dome

Goals

Astropol session

Equipment Used

Scope Camera Focus
MainPICSI2 w/ 178
FinderASI 4822465

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?

Log

- Autodome was not matched with the telescope, so we moved the dome manually.

- Tried pointing to the moon but it was very far off.

- Pointed on moon by manually adjusting from the dome.

- Tried to use PHD2 planetary guiding on the moon. Appeared to be connected to the mount with tracking turned on, but kept giving various errors saying it was not able to correct sufficiently. Evidently was not correcting as the moon was drifting off. Tried setting tracking in DFM to 14.693 to match the moon and setting tracking in PHD2 to “lunar” but did not help.

- Finder began dropping frames. Fixed by hitting close camera and then reconnecting it.

- Clouds during OP313 first capture - Clouds during 3C 273 capture around 2330 roughly

ToDo

Notes

Astropol session

Weather

1730 - 59F, H 80%

Data