20240521

20:10 start 23:06 end

Roy Prouty, Samuel Silva, Perseus Yu, Gwyn Ellias, Malaak McDonald

Control room Dome

View Polaris and “HD143454” Develop and test operation training materials Give new trainees an introduction to the control room and dome

1. We opened the dome
2. Turned on both of the fans (Opened the door and set up the fan)
3. Connected the camera and cables
4. Took the big ladder outside

Took data for the training modules

1. Introduction to detector
2. Telescope-detector connection
3. Intro to telescope hardware (ICRON box ports)
4. Explanation how to exit the dome

Slewed and viewed Polaris, Capella, the Croc's eye galaxy, and the Blaze Star

More training data:

1. Focusing images in Sharpcap and DFMTCS
2. Determining the best conditions for obs sessions

Took some finderscope captures of the blaze star to compare against post-blaze blaze star captures in a few weeks

Shutdown Recorded shut down procedures for training modules

- finish taking training module notes on DFMTCS - synthesize typed and transcript notes into a training module

- sky cover was good but the humidity was too high to expect anything crisp