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Log Book Entry No.128
Created: 13 Jan 2017 20:20:49 |
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017 20:20:49 |
LenaLenz1 |
PH2900 Observation 1 |
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Boogert, Fernandes Miguel, Hughes Sarah, Lenz Lena
17:23
- Remove rain cover
- open doom doors (bolt, ropes, door)
- Remove telescope caps
- Switch on telescope power
- Telescope takes GPS fix
- Automatically moves west
- h = LST - \alpha = 1:36:45 LST - 5:17:58(Capella) ~ -3:41:0
- Centred capella in finders scope speed 5
- Synchronise coordinates on Capella ( object -> star -> named -> Capella -> Enter (2 seconds) -> Enter to sync)
- Opened MaxIm DL
- Connected camera and set exposure time to 0.1 second 4 binning
- selected new target in subframe exposure time 1 second 1 binning
- put into focus mode and adjusted focus using north and south based on maximum
- centered Haedus speed 5 and 7
- took multiple exposures between 0.1 and 1.5 seconds in steps of 0.1 seconds
- observed blooming 1.5 seconds maximum pixel value 55000
- saturation point 65000
- took 10 images at exposure 0.4 to observe the flux but reached saturation point due to cloud coverage
- took another 10 images at exposure 0.2 that had maximum pixel value around 30000
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