Time/Date
20230206T1900-
People
Onkar, Roy
Spaces Occupied
433C, 401, Dome
Goals
- Open things up
- Close them down
- Observe stars, blazars, and maybe Mars
- ZTF
Log
- Followed opening procedure
- Connected cameras to scope
- pointing at capella
- Attempting to focus
- Attempted to measure Seeing via FWHM reported by SharpCap in pixels.
- Calculated 25'' for planetary camera (13.8 pix average for best FWHM measure)
- Couldn't accurately determine focal length of finderscope, so couldn't figure angular resolution of detector easily
ToDo
- Second security camera needs to be installed near dome encoder.
- Get static IP for network switch
- Roy: Bring side table in for control room
Notes
Other misc notes or things learned. This list may have a lot of overlap with ToDo. I.e., "We learned how to use the ZWO XYZLMNOP camera, ToDo: create a wiki page on the XYZLMNOP camera".
Weather
If using the telescope, record the ambient temperature, dome temperature, forecast seeing, temperature, humidity, transparency, cloud cover, etc. We'll eventually arrive at a solid table of these and can query online resources to build this quickly.
Data
If using the telescope cameras, record the local and any remote location of collected data.