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20250822
Time
0030-6000
Attendance
pavi,krishna,lynn
Spaces Occupied
PHYS 401, 433C
Goals
ASTROPOL
Equipment Used
| Scope | Camera | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Main | PICSI2 w/ 178 | |
| Finder | ASI 482 | 2465 |
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? |
| 20250822T0003 | Darks | u | 12ms | 0 | 1.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | Cal | Scope | Purpose | tracking? Others? |
| 20250822T0015 | LED | g | 12ms | 50 | 1.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | Cal | Scope | Purpose | tracking? Others? |
| 20250822T0151 | Gamma Peg | g | 50ms | 50 | 1.63 | 2.83 | 0.14 | 15.18 | SPB Star | Main | Purpose | Tracking not stable, Because Cloudy |
| 20250822T0205 | Gamma Peg | g | 50ms | 50 | 1.63 | 2.83 | 0.14 | 15.18 | SPB Star | Main | Purpose | Tracking not stable, Because Cloudy |
Log
- 2330 Started setting up the dome
- 2345 NUC is not connecting initially then tried to reinserting the power cable to the NUC, then it started working
- 0003 Capture the darks
- 0015 capture the LED {changed the led level to 6 to capture and later changed to 3}
- 0035 the sky is cloudy
- 0120 done with the pointing
- 0125 slewed to Iota her
- 0130 Its very cloudy so waiting for the cloud to go
- 0151 slewed to gamma peg, the exposure 12ms it is very dim due to cloud so sightly increased to 50ms
- 0205 again slewed to gamma peg because the tracking was not stable and there was lot of clouds. the PHD2 guiding was kept on getting disconnected because of the clouds
- 0226 still cloudy waiting for cloud go away ,Skybot graph it mention there is a decline in the cloud after 2:30
ToDo
Notes
Weather
0000: 64F, H 90%