Observing Session - POST PAINT

Time
20230726T1800-0000

Peoples
Roy, Onkar, Connor

Places
PHYS 401, 433C, Dome

Goals

1. Put control room back together

2. Confirm operation of scope, DC, CC

3. Discuss seeing and tracking studies

Log

1. Put control room back together

   1. Big differences

      1. Bookshelves next to each other

      2. No filing cabinet

      3. Minifridge on counter – not yet filled with beverages 

      4. Dream guide stuck to side of monitor

2. Scope works!

   1. Poorly aligned

   2. Pointed at Moon (took pics!)

   3. Then refined pointing on Vega

3. Trying to take seeing frame

   1. Dubhe

   2. Theta Drac

   3. Eta Herc

   4. Pi Herc

4. Broadly seeing seeing disc of 5''-7''

   1. Taking a series of images at low exposure of Pi Herc

   2. Also live stacking Pi Herc to compare

5. Jabbah in Blue Horsehead Nebula

   1. Not much to see, other than the double star Jabbah

6. Moved to M57 – the Ring Nebula

7. Moved to M51, but it wasn't very nice

8. Wrote about PHD2 in wiki

Notes
Onkar has lots of ideas
We should keep track of humidity and temperature

ToDo

Data

Normal place

Weather

At 2200

29C in dome 

24C in control room

Humidity reported at 72%

At 0000

28C in dome

23C in control room

Humidity at 77%