[Peyton-observing] Observation Night Feb 1st

[Munan Gong]

Hi Jim,
I agree that it will be helpful to check the settings. Is there a written
instruction anywhere? Or does someone know how to do it? I will be happy to
see and learn the settings for the telescope.

Munan


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:05 AM, jegunn <jeg at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

>
> Thanks all, and to Chris and Chelsea. Does anyone have any clue how
> the telescope was set to altazimuth? We should probably check ALL the
> settings, although if the telescope pointed they are most likely
> mostly OK. It would not be a bad idea to go through the setup
> procedure step by step.
>
> --jim
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Munan Gong wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,The observing night is unbelievably amazing!
> > We came up to the dome at 9pm, and enjoyed ourselves with stars and music
> > till 11pm, before the neuroscience prospectives came. Even with stadium
> > lights on, we saw a plenty of very faint objects down to ~8.4mag : M81
> and
> > M82, the crab nebular, M40(double star), M106, NGC0869(double cluster),
> M94,
> > M51(Whirlpool galaxy), M32(faint companion of M31) even the astroid
> vista,
> > and of course, fabulous view of Jupiter and Orion nebular.
> > There are about 20 prospectives today, and we showed them Jupiter, Orion
> > nebular and M44 cluster, and they stayed for about an hour till midnight.
> >
> > Some notes:
> > 1. 20 people is really a big group - we didn't split them in two groups
> > because it was really late anyway. Some people didn't have time to adjust
> > the focus, and that was a shame.. Although we have a lot of astro grads
> to
> > help, the dome is really packed and noisy with a lot of people. So I
> think
> > actually ~<10 people at one time will be much nicer.
> >
> > 2. The telescope was not tracking and directing to the objects properly
> in
> > the beginning. Then Chris and Chelsea found out the problem - The local
> time
> > is off by a few minutes, and the setting somewhere(can you remind me
> Chris?)
> > is to 'ALT**' rather than 'POLAR'. After adjusting that , the telescope
> was
> > working well. The east button was working in the beginning for mysterious
> > reasons, and it broke down again after sometime..
> >
> > 3. It would be a perfect night if the lights of the stadium is closed. We
> > did send out the email to require that, but somehow they were not doing
> it.
> > It's not the firs time for this to happen.. Anyone knows how to solve
> this
> > problem?
> >
> > 4. We had a lot of fun ourselves when there were only astro people in the
> > dome. Sometime we shall find a night as good as this, and have a star
> gazing
> > party music and refreshments in Peyton :)
> >
> > Finally, thank you so much Chris, Chelsea for helping out with setting up
> > the telescope and organize the observation, I would have been crying
> with a
> > not working telescope without you. Thanks Elisa for helping sort out all
> > details, and thank you for coming, giving help and nice company, Pete,
> Alex,
> > Andrea, Manu and Simo. I'm really moved that you guys came to help and
> > stayed so late at night, even though some had to get up very early
> tomorrow.
> > This is the best Friday night I have had in Peyton.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Munan
> >
> >
>
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