Thursday, May 12, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-11

SA: Petri
SO: Siphelo
Others: Janus, Tim, Ted, John, Eric, Marsha, Steve P.

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Summary
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- Beautiful and productive night, with several very nice Fabry-Perot
targets and first succesful spectropolarimetry with T Pyx.

- RSS guidance mapping tests. Concern about salticam fold-mirror
stability: there is clear Rho-dependent flexure between salticam
and rss images, and also variation when putting fold-mirror in/our.
Nevertheless, guiding worked fine with several tracks, after star
was hunted down. Needs more work to map.

- Tim ran the all-sky camera - check out the video on the blog-site,
which features a cool surprise visitor caught on camera!


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