[Peyton-observing] LX200 manual

[jegunn]

Except it wasn't. Here it is.

--j

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, jegunn wrote:

>
> The Meade manual is attached. I would suggest that Elisa, Chris, Chelsea,
> Munan, and I get together some evening and go through the setup procedure.
> Even if nothing is wrong (which seems likely) it would seem worthwhile to
> do this.
>
> --jim
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Munan Gong wrote:
>
>> 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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