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- Followed startup procedures on the wiki
- Had to flip Mirror Doors switch to the "Open" position, was not in the wiki
- Prepared to take flats
- Pointed scope East and dome was misaligned 180 deg
- Reset dome position as instructed on the "Auto-dome" page of wiki
- Repointed to West because we were losing light
- Began a set of 10 flat frames at 14.7 seconds and binning of 2 in visible light
- Repeated for red and blue light
- Pointed at Vega and took quick captures
- Pointed at Alioth (Demon Head Star)
- Multiple-star system, so we left
- Pointed at Pi Herc (HD 156283)
- Took Seeing Frames
- Focusing
- Orig: 2302.1
- 22993.1
- Pointed at theta herc (hd 163770)
- slew to M16
- issues with guiding, may be humidity related or tertiary scope related
- seeing frames
- took more
- m57
- still got some elliptical stars, guiding bad.
- shutdown
- followed normal shutdown procedures
- flipped mirror door switch to neutral
- forgot to put aperture cover back on tertiary scope, whoops
ToDo:
- create better mount for tertiary scope
- onkar will explore this
- the current mounting solution gives a slight wobble to the tertiary scope making it no bueno for ag
- onkar will design a version 1.6 mounting solution similar to the current one but that will reduce wobble and bring scope physically closer to main scope
- onkar will design a new mounting solution 2.0 that will clamp around the finder scope and still utilize the finder scope mounting point to increase stability
- will see if this can be 3d printed or if eric manufacturing co. will be needed
- tara and onkar will use respective frames gathered tonight for seeing and tracking projects
- connor will begin rough draft of system diagram of E V E R Y T H I N G to better understand how our stuff works
Weather
2046
TDome 25C
TCR 23C
NOAA T 24C
NOAA Humid 43%
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