by Francois Kinard, 26 March 2013
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> Night 2:
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> We continued the training of the first night. For that we have already
> rechecked the first night procedure before our night 2 and we thought
> that during our night 1 we used the barlow without realizing that this
> zoom was to powerful.
> During the night 2 we did the procedure without the barlow and we have
> also a bit cleaned the front collector plate with canned air because
> we were sure that air don’t damage it.
> After that, we started the alignment procedure but the sky was very
> cloudy. To choose our alignment stars we looked at the opening of the
> dome. We saw Pollux and Castor and we decided to use these for our two
> alignment stars. We align easily Pollux but Castor was difficult
> because the center of the scope was not accurately aligned with the
> telescope. So we make another trial with a more brilliant star that’s
> the reason why we moved to Arcturus as our second alignment star which
> was easy to align too. This was a success and we were very happy that
> finally we did a good alignment.
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> The only constellation which was visible by eyes was Ursa Major. So to
> test that our alignment was really good we began to observe our first
> double star Mizar. Then we used it as a calibration star. We enter
> Saturn in the hand control and the telescope moved immediately to the
> planet. We were able by focusing to observe Saturn, its rings and two
> of its satellites: Titan and Rhea.
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> Finally we installed the CCD and did all the plugs that we had to do
> but the program CCDOps on my pc didn’t succeed in establishing the
> link with the CCD device.