Team 2 - Heisenburglars (07/06/17 - 07/09/17)

Post date: Jul 07, 2017 1:13:26 AM

Thursday, 5:30 -- Filled water tank

Night of 07/06, Coordinate problem -- went to ra/dec for landolt, had to move with paddle, didn't update pointing, and wrote down current coords in telescope control for next slew to this target. Went to the coords we wrote down the next time we went to the Landolt field, but it wasn't even close to the right place (even though it should be). Did the same thing as the first time again. Happened twice, then we realized we were using J2017.515 coords (the precessed coords) and telling the telescope they were J2000. We tried telling it the coords were J2017.515, but came to the same field we got every time we tried and weren't in the right place. Each time we go to the original coords, it starts in the same place. We would then move with the paddle and it would record the coord changes correctly. Almost every other target is centered when we slew with our original coordinates.

Night of 07/06, Trouble shooting coordinate problem-- changed epochs to test problem, precessed correctly for past coords, but not for 2017. Precessed 2017 as if it was J2000 (probably). Probably doesn't work for anything past J2000.

Night of 07/06, Coordinate roblem solution -- We believe that the epoch we tell the telescope the target is in is not what the telescope is using. Any epoch beyond J2000 doesn't seem to work.

Night of 07/06, Filter note -- Filter wheel does rotate button does not turn green for i. Works, it's just not green.

07/07, 2:58 pm -- We were taking a series of darks, final image was read out into image viewer, on Evora the abort button turned off and the exposure button turned back on, but the Exp bar was still moving as if it was reading out. After a few minutes, it fully froze and we had to hard kill Evora and related processes(and also Loki to be safe).

07/07, 3:18 pm -- After the hard restart, set dir isn't working. When clicked, it is in the mro folder, but shows nothing in the window where the things inside the mro folder should be. Decided to manually move files to correct directory later and shutdown when done with calibrations for Project 1 to let it reset itself.

07/07, 9:51pm -- We were running real time to find focus stars, and tried to click single without hitting abort, then realized we need to hit abort and did it. Don't know if it froze before or after hitting abort, but it froze. We minimized the window, and then everything in the GUI was white including the closing Evora pop-up. Had to hard restart again.

07/07, 10:00pm -- We were trying to jog using the padel to find stars to focus on. While moving the telescope just started to slew on its own. It was highly concering. We stopped the tracking and the telescope stopped moving. We then had to readjust to Vega. 

07/07 -- Played with Load Finder Chart button, noticed it doesn't mark the target.

07/08, 2:56am -- Evora crashed for no apparent reason (we didn't do anything and nothing was exposing). After we reconnected, it started doing the set dir blank out again.

07/08, 7:55pm -- Opened a dome flat in DS9 and it had colored pixels even though we had it in grey scale. We clicked around on the scale and it fixed itself. Don't know what caused the temporary problem.

07/09 -- Evora crashed (closed entirely on its own for no reason) right before starting twilight flats. We still got all of them though. Directory broke again afterwards.

Water level when we left was 15in.

Water left there: 3 unused blue jugs, 1 mostly used, 1 one gal drinking water, 1 partially used drinking water.

What food was there when we left:

butter (sticks and spread), yogurt, 1 carton of eggs, 2 salsa jars, *lots* of cream cheese, tortillas, some sliced cheddar cheese, a potato wrapped in tinfoil, half a gallon of milk, 2 apples, brats, partially used frozen hashbrowns, popsicles, an Owen's flank steak, 1 bag kettle corn, mircowave popcorn, some torilla chips, opened bag of pretzels, 1.5 loaves of wheat bread, 2 hamburger buns, hot dog buns, half a box of cheerios, peanut butter, 2 onions, 2 garlic cloaves, bread crumbs, rice, condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, ranch, relish, blue cheese dressing, chili garlic sauce, thousand island sauce, bbq sauce).

Also there: coffee, earl grey and peach tea.

Need: paper bowls, bag clips (can use binder clips!), sandwich baggies