Ray
Roboscopes Guinea Pig
Phil McCauley
Roboscopes Website Admin
Please ignore my dylexia wherever possible, just be thankful I can control my Tourettes ;)
Things to do, so little time!
Steve
Roboscopes Tea Boy
It appears that the very favourable recent spell of excellent weather may be coming to an end. Hopefully it will return soon.
I have a series of concerns which I will address in short posts fitted in with my spare time today, and hopefully will make it easier to reply to.
Concern 1
The algorithm being used to determine what is going to be imaged during each period of clear skies, needs to allow to be overrided. For convenience I am attaching 2 screenshots of the imaging queue, there are several things in the queue that I will address in subsequent posts. For now a major concern is that the M31 which is shown in the queue for the 15th January and only required one more hour to complete, has not been allocated any more time. This could have at least been done on the 17th even after waiting for the crescent moon to set at 21:42 with M31 still at 36°.
Weather delays mean that the moon will start to impact on broadband targets like M31.
I hope that this is not the case.
Apart from Richard I am not aware of where the other targets are coming from. It does not bother me, however, some of the target integration times are insane!
One of these in particular has been taking up a large proportion of the imaging time, there are others. I draw your attention for now to the galaxy M82. Not something either Richard or I asked for, but while we have no more right to time than anyone else, I believe we have a right to question.
Twenty hours imaging time, 636 times 61 megapixel light frames. I don't think the word insane goes far enough.
So much else in the queue could have been completed and started.
End of concern 1.
Peter Shah
Roboscopes Observatory Controller
Ray
Roboscopes Guinea Pig
Peter Shah
Roboscopes Observatory Controller
Ray
Roboscopes Guinea Pig
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