Team Heisenburglars' Log

Post date: Jul 27, 2017 11:52:52 PM

7/27, arrival -- water level: 26 in, enjoying the fancy copper attachment to the tube for the footpump.

7/28, 2:24am -- Noticed that the ra and dec froze on our last target. When we slewed, they didn't update from our last coordinates. Everything else in the Bifrost TTC Status area is fine and working properly. The coordinates are the only thing that's stuck.

7/28, morning -- Emailed pictures of eyepiece that Oliver asked for.

7/28 -- We keep running into the "target ra exceeds max hour angle" warning, which we thought was weird because our targets should be low up definitely clearing the 20 degree limit. The issue is the mount. It would have been nice to have more exact places the telescope can't point due to this.

7/28 -- Plot Target should be flipped upsidedown so it aligns with how the computer/dome actually points (as in have South be up).

7/28, 9:52pm -- The ra and dec got stuck again after we pointed to Vega. The telescope is fine and tracking and doing great, it's just Bifrost. LST and times and such are still fine, it's just the ra and dec. The only thing that fixes it is closing and reopening Bifrost and that's a pain to do every 5 minutes. This also means we can't change our coords file to correct for pointing issues very well since we can't see how much we've moved.

7/28, 10:02pm -- Real time inverts the x axis of the image with respect to other single/series images , would it be possible to flip one of them so that they have the same orientation? It gets really confusing when we flip to real time to use the paddle.

7/28 -- We keep running into the "target ra exceeds max hour angle" warning, which we thought was weird because our targets should be low up definitely clearing the 20 degree limit. The issue is the mount. It would have been nice to have more exact places the telescope can't point due to this.

7/28 -- Plot Target should be flipped upsidedown so it aligns with how the computer/dome actually points (as in have South be up).

7/28, 9:52pm -- The ra and dec got stuck again after we pointed to Vega. The telescope is fine and tracking and doing great, it's just Bifrost. LST and times and such are still fine, it's just the ra and dec. The only thing that fixes it is closing and reopening Bifrost and that's a pain to do every 5 minutes.

7/29, 2:15am -- Evora crashed for no reason. The GUI just disappeared and we had to reconnect everything. In the middle of a transit observation. :(

7/31: water tank at 16 inches. 

Food: lots of tortillas, butter, some milk, carrots, leftover beans, tons of turkey lunchmeat, cream cheese, hummus, salsa, some tortilla chips, oatmeal, cheerios, 2ish loaves of bread, peanut butter, and the usual spices, etc. 3 blue jugs of water left. About 6 gal of drinking water.

Needs:Paper plates

Overally a good trip!

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