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- Turned on ASCOM, TCS, Thesky6, opened dome
- Onkar mounted the ICRON Extender Box using double-sided gorilla tape on the GAM-Lite
- Connected the ICRON to the outlet 3of the remote power strip, relieving the small ladder of its ICRON holding duty.
- Closed the dome and covered baffle/finder scope in order to take dark frames on PHD2
- Collected dark frames for the on-axis camera first (ZWO ASI 178MM), then the for the finder scope (ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro)
- Select the desired camera, then follow Top Taskbar → Darks → Dark Library → Start to begin taking dark frames
- Made a new profile for each camera (ASI 178MM and ASI 2600MM Pro) so that multiple dark libraries could be saved
- Retook dark frames on each respective profile
- Uncovered main scope and finder scope and opened the dome
- Slewed to Orion
- Attempted to focus the main scope using SharpCap to limited success
- Connected on-axis camera to PHD2 and attempted to begin guiding, but couldn't get a sharp enough image to guide with
- Switched to finder scope profile and connected finder scope camera to PHD2 and began guiding
- Calibration failed because the star didn't move enough
- onkar Onkar comes back.
- Slewed to Mars and fixed the pointing in the on-axis camera
- set object position
- slewed to capella
- set object position
- fixing the focus, set to 2270.9
- slewed to HD 81567
- why? close to celestial eq and apparent magnitude of 6
- set object position
- attempting guiding\
- phd2 having trouble locating the star, very fuzzy
- attempting to increase SNR from 70 to 150
- tried forcing it to autoguiding autoguide anyway, could not accurately tell if it was calibrating correctly or following the star
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