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1830 -

Bhanu, Saisri, Sterling, Percy, Noah

401, 433C, Dome

Astropol - PICSARR2

[19:11:52] SESSION START [19:11:52] obs arrival Bhanu [19:11:52] obs arrival Saisri [19:11:52] Active instrument: PICSARR2 [19:12:02] starting Dome setup and Control room set up [19:12:15] Also chaning the instrument to PICSARR2 [19:12:22] changing* [19:24:15] Finished setting up the equipment [19:30:52] Sharp cap is not loading, restarted the NUC [19:43:18] calibration start [19:43:26] taking Darks [19:45:10] Finished Darks [19:51:46] Taking Flats [19:55:04] Finished taking flats [19:56:50] LED level changed back to 4, in mode A [20:07:07] cALIBRATION END [20:07:27] Waiting for sun to set [21:03:46] Started Pointing [21:04:09] sun set, there is little light still left [21:05:36] pointing done [21:05:41] slewing to spica [21:07:43] starting captures of Spica [21:24:59] Slewing to Eta Boo [21:25:51] Started captures of Eta Boo [21:41:40] slewing to beta leo [21:42:31] started captures of beta leo [21:58:41] slewing to HD 154445 [22:00:40] Started Captures of HD154445 [22:16:46] Finished captures of HD 154445 [22:16:51] slewing to spica [22:20:21] started captures of spica [22:37:47] Finished captures of spica [22:39:19] slewing to Eta Boo [22:40:14] Started captures of Eta Boo [22:56:41] Finished captures of Eta Boo [22:57:11] Slewing to beta Leo [22:57:58] started captures of beta leo [23:14:55] Finished captures of Beta Leo [23:16:13] Slewing to HD 154445 [23:19:01] Started Captures of HD154445 [23:35:46] Finished captures of HD 154445 [23:37:33] slewing to Spica [23:39:47] started captures of spica [23:54:35] Finished captures of spica [23:55:31] slewing to Eta Boo [23:55:56] Started captures of Eta Boo [23:58:26] obs arrival Sterling [23:58:34] obs arrival Noah [00:12:10] Finished captures of Eta Boo [00:14:49] started captures of beta leo [00:31:14] Finished captures of Beta Leo [00:31:43] slewing to HD 154445 [00:34:08] Finished captures of HD 154445 [00:34:22] Started* [00:57:46] Data computer crashed [00:57:54] had issues with vnc not working [00:57:56] fixed [00:58:25] data has been saving to DDC captures even though we are using PICSAR2 [00:58:38] switching to the Z: drive [00:59:02] and moving data from DDC captures from today to Z: [01:05:13] The data is too large to move over [01:05:27] here is the file path to the data, C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\DDC Captures\2026-05-31_ZWO-ASI533MM-Pro_PICSI2\AM-Her\04_51_20 [01:10:59] Spica is too low for observation [01:12:00] ending Astropol plan, swtiching to highschool interns data [01:12:23] obs depature Saisri [01:12:31] obs depature Bhanu [01:12:42] obs departure Bhanu [01:12:47] obs departure Saisri [01:12:59] they left earlier [01:14:52] ASTROPOL SESSION END

[0115] Slewing to NGC 5466 [0135] Slewing to the moon [0137] Taking a quick picture of the moon [0140] Slewed back to NGC 5466 and began captures in b [0229] Began taking captures in v [0309] Beginning second set of captures in b