20260905

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Pavi, Jason, Percy, Brayden

[18:30:19] SESSION START
[18:30:19] obs arrival Jason
[18:30:19] obs arrival Pavi
[18:30:19] Active instrument: PICSI2
[18:30:42] the mirror doors were open and none of the switches on the MDC were down. Also stop motors was not pushed in.
[18:34:29] PICSI2 Manual not working, able to access old one at this time using that.
[18:51:21] Camera is connected
[18:51:27] Starting sharpcap setup
[18:57:56] Sharpcap setup complete, Starting darks
[19:17:38] r30ms, u30ms, g30ms, r200ms, r15s, all at 150 gain done
[19:28:47] Started to take flats but ran into a problem
[19:29:22] also frames are dropping alot
[20:22:58] Troubleshooted kinesis, ended up not working tonight starting pointing.
[20:28:43] Pointing Succesfull with vega
[20:29:25] Changing Focus
[20:30:02] Focus calibrated at 1840
[20:31:31] Slewing to alpha lac
[20:31:40] Starting Capture
[20:39:20] alpha lac capture completed
[20:43:48] slewed to HD154445 and started capturing
[20:49:14] capture completed
[20:55:56] started slewing to GRW +708247
[23:15:57] Capture complete
[23:16:13] waiting for Ian for Saturn
[23:28:13] Slewing to alpha lac
[23:29:25] Starting Capture
[23:38:35] Slewing to Bl lac
[23:46:36] started capturing bl lac
[00:52:08] Obs arrival Percy
[00:53:49] Obs departure Jason
[00:53:54] Obs arrval Brayden
[01:47:29] BL Lac capture froze and completed at 330/400 captures
[01:47:34] Slewing to Saturn
[01:52:58] Beginning u filter capture of Saturn
[02:09:45] Beginning r filter capture of Saturn
[02:22:00] Saturn capture complete
[02:24:10] Slewing to Bl Lac
[02:29:21] Beginning g filter capture of BL Lac
[04:29:28] BL Lac capture complete
[04:31:52] Taking second and last capture of the night for Bl Lac - reducing number of rotations to 20, for a ~1.5 vspture duration
[06:11:54] Capture complete
[06:12:00] Shutdown procedures complete
[06:12:21] SESSION END