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Time

20230711T1900-

People

Onkar

Places

PHYS 433C, Dome

Goals

1. more seeing frames
2. continuing tracking/ag study on an astrometric field
3. play with travel scope + celestron travel scope 70 combo, see if it can work as a guide scope

Log

1. opening up
   1. onkar opened dome up at around 8pm
   2. turned on vent and propped open door w fan
   3. checked everything else is still fine
   4. installed asi294mm on axis
   5. plugged in finder scope cam
   6. opened mirror doors approx 9pm
   7. saw st4 cable disconnected from guidedream, not sure why that is, onkar proceeded to plug it back in
2. travel scope shenanigans
   1. onkar very professionally mounted travel scope to the side of spotter scope
      1. note to self, take pictures of the mounts and fabricate a proper one
   2. installed asi178mm onto travel scope via a lot of adapters
   3. plugged in asi178mm into icron extender
   4. tried focusing on star
   5. could not focus on star, need to zoom out more or use barlow
   6. sad
3. Arcturus
   1. slewed to it
   2. set object position
   3. phd2
      1. enabled multi-star guiding
      2. had to make a new profile, called it 20230711
      3. using finder scope cam (2600mm pro)
      4. looks pretty cool

Notes

Lul smoke

ToDo

1. Create gifs demonstrating with and without autoguiding
2. calculate RA and DEC differences with and without autoguiding

1. 1. 1. Image Added
   2. focusing

Notes

ToDo

Data

Saved to google drive

Weather

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