Long Shot on Pillars

Time/Date

20230810T2000-0015(+1)

People

Onkar, Roy, Azzan

Spaces Occupied

PHYS 401, 433C, Dome

Goals

1. Get bootyful shots of pillars

2. Use tertiary scope with 178mm for guiding in phd2

Log

1. setup

   1. Opened dome at 2000

   2. Normal startup procedure

   3. Swapped spotter camera with on-axis camera (2600mm pro + filter wheel are on axis)

   4. finder scope unpopulated

   5. Put 178MM on tertiary scope

   6. set up phd2. created profile, calibrated

2. slewed to vega
   
   

   1. set object position

   2. nithe

3. theta herc

   1. set object pos

   2. guiding on

   3. recorded 3 seeing frames in bin 1 and V filter

4. m16, pillars

   1. slewed a bit to get pillars in view

   2. attempting imaging at 300s exposure, bin1 and phd2 on at 2s 

   3. eh?

   4. Open

      

   5. 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

5. Normal Shutdown Procedure

   1. left the cameras on access of rotation and tertiary

   2. put lens cap cover on tertiary scope

ToDo

1. align 178mm better on tertiary scope such that the blue RA lines are more horizontal than the above image (anyone)

2. 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)

3. investigate what filters would be best to use to view pillars (anyone)

4. investigate what camera(s) would be best on finder

   1. must be 16bit

   2. have the same external mounting holes as the asi2600mm does to utilize our current mounting solution

Notes

there were totally donuts

humidity in the 70's seem to make auto-guiding fail

Weather

2100
Dome Temp 26C
CR Temp 24C
Ambient Temp 26C
Ambient Humidity 74%

0015
Dome Temp 25C
CR Temp 23C
Ambient Temp 23C
Ambient Humidity 71%

Data

If using the telescope cameras, record the local and any remote location of collected data.