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Seeing Frames
Date/Time
People
Plan
Target | Catalog Name | Transit | Instrument | Frame Type | Filter | ExpTime | Gain | Pan | Tilt | Series |
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Pi Herc | HD 156283 | 1819 | Light | |||||||
Theta Herc | HD 163770 | 1900 | Light | |||||||
Log
Followed Start-Up Procedure
Mirror door switch needed to be flipped to on, wasn't in procedures
Camera installation wasn't in procedures
Cameras
DFM Scope: ASI294MM Pro
Finder Scope: ASI2600MM Pro
Tertiary Scope: ASI482MC
Had issues with DFM Scope with 294, so swapped with 178
Pointing on Vega
Updated pointing
Focused
Went to Pi Herc
Focused More
Collected Seeing Frames
Went to Theta Herc
Collected Seeing Frames
Found and went to Iota Cygnus
Collected Seeing Frames
Added to Target List
Went to Saturn
Enabled Thor Instrument Rotator
Took some frames of Saturn
Onkar will attempt lucky imaging on Saturn
Went to M13
Took many frames in different filters
Also in bin mode 1 and bin mode 4
Onkar will built RGB images and compare modes
Others will examine impacts of under/over sampling
Took dome flats in the filters used for M13
Followed normal Shutdown Procedure
Need to flesh some items out on this page
All Data moved to Google Drive
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Direct Questions/Concerns to Roy Prouty (roy.prouty@umbc.edu)