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 | ||
| Finder | ASI 482 | N/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
- Roy tried to remember the start-up procedure (mostly worked)
- Removed ASI 2600 from main scope, waiting for Ian to install AstroPol in strument
- Roy made changes to add_blog thingy (ask Roy; not important for observing) that fixed the creation of new blog posts (we think)
- There were pointing issues, sorted it by adding coords manually
- Used Next Object position several times
- It was cloudy after 9 Pm
- Percy arrives at 0200, Nick arrives at 0300
- Percy, Nick, and Dimitri begin a 4 hour-long capture for PICSII2
- 0651 - beginning shutdown procedures
- keeping PICSII2 on the main scope
- 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