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Pine Mountain Observatory Summer Research Workshop
Sunday July 27, 2014

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