Equipment

• Camera: QSI 532ws-M1 CCD camera.
  • Diffraction Limited MaxIm DL camera control software
• Edmund Optics T-Mount Extension Tube 20mm (NT53-231).
• Celestron EdgeHD T-Adapter 93646.
• Telescope: Celestron C9.25 aplanatic Schmidt telescope 235 mm aperture, f/10 focal ratio, 2350 mm focal length.
• Finder: Celestron 9 X 50mm Finder Scope.
• Orion dew shield.
• Mount: Astro-Physics 1200GTO German Equatorial Mount (1200GTO) with GTOCP3 Control Box.

Objectives

• Set up equipment
• Finalize team members
• Train team on running the equipment
  • Camera control
  • Mount control

19:00 Evening Presentations

• Stars, Rick Walkins
• CCD cameras, Rick Walkins
• Astrometry, Sean Curry

Nighttime

• Cloudy
• Trained team to operate CCD camera and mount. Training done by before midnight. Everyone went to bed

Early dawn it was clear

• Polar alignment
• Focus on Vega with V filter
• Take image of M57

Sunrise

• Park telescope mount
• Take darks, flats, flat darks
• Put away things and cover them