Log Book Entry No.81

Created: 15 Jan 2016 15:21:37

Last Revised: 26 Jan 2016 12:37:42

AlexandrePierrot

PH3010 Intro to telescope

Planned to meet at 13:00 - Entered dome at 13:30

Present: Charlotte Newton, Nikhil Patel, Josh Reid, Alex Pierrot, Will Burrows, Professor Boogert.

• Walked up the stairs, avoided head collision
• Made sure stairs are only occupioed by 1 person at a time
• Closed door when all members are inside the dome
• Checked the weather, no chance of rain
• Opened the dome doors
• Removed telescope cover
• Removed the two lens caps
• Supplied Power and switched telescope on

• Connected flip mirror, imaging source camera, and 32mm eyepiece
• Moved telescope to point at Bedford library
• Connected the imaging camera via firewire cable
• (Process of focusing) Removed mirror lock and moved mirror internally
• Moved dome and telescope to face Boiler House gas towers
• Captured 5 focused images of a brick face

• Moved dome & telescope towards the moon. Aligned telescope to centre the moon.
• Captured 5 images of a 3 crater formation along terminator of moon's surface.
• Moved dome & telescope to point at Capella.
• 1:12:00 LST (Local Sidereal Time)
• RA/DE - 5h17m53s/ 46:00:45
• Set telescope to 19:54:07
• Captured 5 images of Capella
• Moved dome and telescope to point at Pleione and Atlas
• Two stars could not be situated in the same frame, did not capture images of these
• Moved dome and telescope to point at Asterope and 21 Tau in Pleides
• RA/DE Asterope (21 Tau) - 3h46m52s / 24:36:12
• Captured 5 images of those two in the same frame
• Moved dome and telescope to point at M 42 nebula

• 2016_01_15.rar: 2016_01_15.rar

• Asterope.rar: Asterope.rar

• Capella.rar: Capella.rar

• Moon.rar: Moon.rar

• Smartphone image of moon taken 15/01/16, showing triplet crater formation observed: