MRO über alles

Post date: Oct 13, 2018 9:5:8 PM

To be completed by Teagan...

Telescope bug: in trying to re-point the finderscope, the telescope tried to go through the floor twice (at about 23:30 and 23:50 PDT). Margaret attempted to slew to alpha Trianguli after losing it in the real time image from Evora. Instead of making a minor slew, the telescope continued to move rapidly to the horizon limit. After each suicide attempt, we hit the emergency stop in Bifrost, which forced us to restart the computer. Matt found a faulty connection on the back of the TCC that could be the sources of the issue, although this same problem happened last year around the same time, so the source of the issue could be in the code.

The three amigos (Stephan, Felix, and Max) successfully hooked up the water flow sensor on this excursion. I don't know how it's going right now because their still working on the code right behind me. Does it work? Maybe. They can talk to the Pi, but it continually reads 0L/hour (which may be because the pumps aren't actually on). From Matt: Hooked up pump and tested, got output on meter of 2.0 (units?) when flowing. The sensor plumbing does leak and will need to be tightened up next trip.

I will not leave my screen unlocked.

~Margaret