Make Roy Proud (Obs Session 20230309)

Time/Date

20230309T2230-20230310T0030 Data timestamped after midnight suggests otherwise

People

Onkar, Natalie, Matt, Tara

Spaces Occupied

433C, dome

Goals

1. test to see how well asi294 efw assembly works on-axis

2. take some pretty pictures

3. see how bad tracking is

Log

• onkar opens dome at approx 2230

  • roy if you see this, im not changing it to military time heck you I can't do simple math well

• onkar installs asi294 (medium cooled camera) efw (filter wheel) assembly on-axis

  • efw is plugged into the asi295's usb 2.0 port

  • asi294 is plugged into icron usb extender

• slewed to moon

  • adjusted focus to 2150

• slewed to capella

  • got in focus mostly around 2155.1

  • took 3 captures five minutes apart 

• slewed to betelgeuse

  • think i found it 

  • took 3 captures five minutes apart 

  • set object position

• slewed to NGC 2244

  • SO MANY STARS

  • took 3 captures five minutes apart

  • tara's list was gr8

• slewed to mars

  • possibly found deimos too

  • exposure at 30.6 seconds 

  • gain at 102

• closing time 

ToDo

look into focus, not 100% confident its dialed in as well as it could be (what does this mean?) this means it was a bit fuzzy but that could be due to haze

Notes

seeing honestly didnt look too bad albeit not the best we have ever had, minimal clouds This seems to contradict the above hey man it was hard to describe

Weather

Astrospheric and ClearDarkSky are reporting good cloud coverage, but both NOAA and Wunderground are reporting ~15-20% coverage at the beginning of the night and then rapidly jumping up to 40% by midnight. Because of this, I am calling Thursday a NO GO. Stay in and watch a movie (or if you happen to be in the Physics Building, come to Astro Club at 9pm ).

I went anyway lol -onakr

Data

Normal place, synced to Google Drive