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- setup
- Opened dome at 2000
- Normal startup procedure
- Swapped spotter camera with on-axis camera (2600mm pro + filter wheel are on axis)
- finder scope unpopulated
- Put 178MM on tertiary scope
- set up phd2. created profile, calibrated
- slewed to vega
- set object position
- nithe
- theta herc
- set object pos
- guiding on
- recorded 3 seeing frames in bin 1 and V filter
- m16, pillars
- slewed a bit to get pillars in view
- attempting imaging at 300s exposure, bin1 and phd2 on at 2s
- eh?
- guiding is okay but star trails in every other frame, might be humidity but also might be the drastic changes that were done to the setup today
- Normal Shutdown Procedure
- left the cameras on access of rotation and tertiary
- put lens cap cover on tertiary scope
ToDo
- align 178mm better on tertiary scope such that the blue RA lines are more horizontal than the above image (anyone)
- design better 3d print adapter to attach tertiary scope closer to main scope to reduce chance of dfm on target and tertiary on dome (onkar)
- investigate what filters would be best to use to view pillars (anyone)
- investigate what camera(s) would be best on finder
- must be 16bit
- have the same external mounting holes as the asi2600mm does to utilize our current mounting solution
Notes
there were totally donuts
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