10:44 AM. Began updating my TheSky6 Quick Reference Card. Huh. Found a newer, more evolved version! With screen snapshots! Wow. Forgot about this one... It's quite far along...
2:00 PM. Continued updating my QRC for TheSky6 with some special items regarding the Paramount ME. I added some new topics. Added a few pictures. I found the new content nicely filled 2 pages. I think it is ready for high quality colour printing! In the meantime, I printed new b&w copies and posted them in the GBO warm room.
3:00 PM. I put Tony's MallinCam notes into a Word document, printed 2 copies, stuff one in the box, posted on in the warm room, and uploaded to CAO supers group. I made sure to incorporate the "summer DSO targets" that Ralph and I worked on.
3:18 PM. While rummaging, I stumbled across a small, instruction guide for the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter. I read it and learned that I've been using the unit incorrectly in dark skies: it can take a couple of minutes to do a proper reading! Doh! RTFM. I surfed into their web site, found the soft copy, and uploaded it to the CAO supers Yahoo!Group file area.
5:00 PM. Changed the fuel filter on the Stargrazer. I don't know if it did much good... That said, I was able to finish cutting the lawn on the west side of the house as well as out by the "camping area." Cliff visited briefly.
5:45 PM. I made a FOVI profile in TheSky6 for the MallinCam (using the StellaCam specs).
5:58 PM. Oh... Just remembered that I have Vit B-complex up here at the CAO. Along with antihistamines. Forgot to take it my B last night. I have a dozen (er, better make that two dozen) new mosquito bites today.
6:02 PM. Just figured out how to rotate the FOVI rectangle for the MallinCam sensor in TheSky6. It was not obvious.
6:49 PM. It has started raining pretty hard. Sangria time! That threw a wrench into my BBQ plans... Used some of my on-site pasta.
I was a little bummed. Had hoped to do some day-time ISS tracking. Wanted some clear skies in the evening. Well, looks like I'll get a decent night's sleep.
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It was a quiet evening. Nicolas and Denis headed to bed pretty early, 9:30 or 9:45 PM. I got some reading and writing done.
As the lightning flashed through every window, I re-examined the house circuitry. Tony and crew had moved around some circuits, pulling more off the main panel, so to be supported by the generator. Unfortunately, there were no notes made on the panel stickers. So I couldn't tell what was happening now. Still, I noted the configuration of new breakers, breakers that were open.
I'm a little irked that no one made notes, given all the trouble I went to, to label everything.
I waited for the lightning to strike nearby. I wanted the house power to go off! Would have been the easy way to test generator-supported circuits.
Power didn't go off. Wouldn't you know it.
Still, the UPS supporting the server did not like the fluctuations and spikes. The beeping alarm went off many times...
I installed glow-in-the-dark stickers on the receptacles and switches that I knew (at present) were generator-supported. Little stars beside the sockets. Big stars on the heater controls. Thanks, Lora!
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