Sunday, May 08, 2016
double take
Charles made a surprise visit. It was awesome. Just in time for scotch o'clock! How does he do that?!
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- Saturn is coming
- thanked people
- no awards event
- helped at spring '16 work party
- helped with training
- we renewed our support
- spun Dark Jovian
- compared SQMs
- followed the Moon
- two right one wrong
- captured Mars (Blue Mountains)
- period go
- reconfigured for traces
- knocked down doubles (Blue Mountains)
- planets at various mags (Blue Mountains)
- set up for Moon trail
- spotted a big spot (Blue Mountains)
- bad bad bat
- imaged NGC 6940 (Halifax)
- got glue
- what time is it?
- reached end of roll
- resized plates
- also checked SCJ 17
- checked GCB 31
- processed the Splinter
- processed 6633
- captured the Blue Racquetball
- captured NGC 6633 (Halifax)
- ran into interference
- had
- Binary Universe: GoISSWatch
- tidied up
- rejected low targets
- captured NGC 6503 (Halifax)
- imaged the Splinter (Halifax)
- imaged NGC 5466 (Halifax)
- the next one
- no weather for you
- shimmed cap
- updated BYE
- reviewed what he might need
- rebooted again
- trails over pond (Blue Mountains)
- painted trees (Blue Mountains)
- made a large version (Blue Mountains)
- tested with a small version (Blue Mountains)
- IDed stuff near 4656
- shot an Arrakis stack (Halifax)
- shot NGC 4605 again (Halifax)
- shot NGC 4656 (Halifax)
- had a fantastic time
- one way to see Mercury
- 'cast the ToM event
- discussed power tank problem
- through the big binos (Blue Mountains)
- blue skies during the ToM
- it all worked
- lost messages
- found camera off
- viewed DSOs and doubles while imaged (Blue Mountains)
- aurora appeared (Blue Mountains)
- checked conditions
- double take
- fixed power cord
- set up for the transit
- it was aurora!
- amazing suddenly (Blue Mountains)
- remotely rebooted
- tested mower
- star trails, mu Dra, a comet, galaxies (Blue Mount...
- stars and trees (Blue Mountains)
- stars in the trees (Blue Mountains)
- took readings from ground
- to the CAO for ToM
- the first transit in 1631
- they did it again
- said he liked it
- planned AP
- issued no changes
- updated team
- planets found around cool dwarf
- never stop
- did SQM stuff
- shared Star Adventurer info
- helped with double star display
- tested Android as remote
- got nervous
- found SQM files
- tested with Ian
- about 1 hour
- picked up parts of alt-az
- hbsd!
- Dr Seager to NAS
- shared ISS-Sun transit info
- tried immediate tests
- captured Arrakis in half a sec (Halifax)
- worked on NGC 4567 and 8
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