20:51:57 Setup Information 20:51:57 Equipment Settings Observer: Kirk Carbo Observatory: Telescope: 12.5 f9 Ritchey Mount type: Equatorial Off-axis guider with reversal used for guiding Imaging camera: FLI Proline9000 CCD Camera Imager pixel size: 12.00 Telescope focal length: 2857 Imager image scale: 0.870 Imaging camera gain: Guide camera pixel size: 9 Guide focal length: 2857 Guider image scale: 0.65 Guide rate: 0.50 Guider1: 2x0.0260.4 Guider2: 1000010000-9.0W3 Rot: 352 Rotator offset: -91.6 W Mount settling time: 5 sec. 1x1 download time: 35 sec. 2x2 download time: 12 sec. 3x3 download time: 6 sec. Other delays: 1 sec. Software Settings CCDAutoPilot, Version: 3.42.7, Professional Edition Licensed to: kjcstudio@cox.net System profile: C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\System Profiles\OGS 10-21-08.app Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 CCDSoft version 5.00.188 being used for image acquisition. DirectGuide being used for guider movement Minimum move: 0.25 arc-sec. Maximum move: 3 arc-sec. Aggressiveness: 10 TheSky version 6.0.0.60 being used for telescope control. FocusMax version 3.03.0029 being used for focus control. Rotator used: Optec Pyxis on COM2 CCDSoft/TheSky used for plate solving Plate solve sub-frame: Full Plate solve filter: Luminance Plate solve binning: 1x1 Plate solve exposure time: 20 Standard FITS keywords will be inserted into the FITS header. Tracking and Guiding Settings Telescope slew to an altitude below 5 will be prevented. Guided operation being used with a peak enhanced dither of 5.00 pixels. AGSR enabled for 10 cycles to get within 1 pixels. An audible alarm will sound if the guide star is not recovered. Focus Settings FocusMax is using the JMISmartFocus.Focuser focuser driver SkyStar being used for focusing. Focus star maximum brightness is Mag. 4 Focus stars will be selected to have an altitude higher than 60 degrees. Focuser temperature compensation is not enabled. A post-focus offset of 0 counts will be applied. WARNING: No periodic focusing specified. WARNING: The same Luminance filter is specified for focusing, regardless of the exposure filter. Filter Parameters Filter Offset Focus Exposure SII 0 1.0 Luminance 0 1.0 Red 0 1.0 Green 0 1.0 Blue 0 1.0 Ha 0 1.0 OIII 0 1.0 Meridian Flip Settings Automatic meridian crossing enabled. The mount will not be resynchronized after the meridian crossing. The guide star will be automatically selected after meridian crossing. A focus run will not occur after the meridian crossing. The mount will track for 1 minutes past the meridian before flipping. WARNING: the mount will be allowed to track up to 4 minutes past the meridian. The rotator will rotate 180 degrees upon meridian crossing. Session and Options 1. Startup Tasks Light frames for the specified target(s) will be obtained. Precision slew to target will be used. 2. After Light Frames Dark and/or bias frames will be acquired after the target light frames. 3. Shutdown tasks Telescope will be re-parked after dawn flats are completed. 20:51:57 20:51:57 Run starting... 20:51:57 Log saved to: C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\CCDAutoPilot_Logs\ccdap20081021_205157.log 20:51:57 *** Review setup before starting session *** 20:51:57 20:51:57 Root save path: C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\ 20:51:57 System profile: C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\System Profiles\OGS 10-21-08.app 20:51:57 Target List: 20:51:57 Start sequence number: 7 20:51:57 20:51:57 20:51:57 Light Frames 20:51:57 Telescope connected (0) 20:52:00 Telescope tracking on 20:52:00 Target: SelfGuideR test at RA: 19 22 13.1, Dec: +05 04 40 , PA: 260.8 20:52:00 Rise: 12:10 21 Oct 20:52:00 54° E elevation: 16:33 21 Oct 20:52:00 Transit: 18:22 21 Oct 20:52:00 51° W elevation: 20:28 21 Oct 20:52:00 Set: 00:34 22 Oct 20:52:02 Slewing scope... 20:52:06 Slewed to RA: 19 22 39.6, Dec: +05 05 46 20:52:06 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:52:11 Telescope RA: 19 22 39.6, Dec: +05 05 46 20:52:11 Rotating to PA: 260.8w 20:52:11 Rotator moving to: 352 20:52:12 Plate solving... 20:52:12 Telescope RA: 19 22 39.6, Dec: +05 05 46 20:52:41 C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\CCDAutoPilot_SyncImages\SyncImage_SelfGuideR test_205239.fit 20:52:50 Solved RA: 19 22 26.1, Dec: +05 04 56 PA: 260.4 20:52:50 Pointing error (arcmin): RA 3.2; Dec 0.3 20:52:50 Slewing scope... 20:52:52 Slewed to RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:52:52 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:52:57 Location corrected 20:52:57 Telescope currently pointing to... 20:52:57 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:52:57 Plate solving... 20:52:57 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:53:26 C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\CCDAutoPilot_SyncImages\SyncImage_SelfGuideR test_205323.fit 20:53:35 Solved RA: 19 22 13.0, Dec: +05 04 41 PA: 260.4 20:53:35 Target RA: 19 22 13.0, Dec: +05 04 41 , PA: 260.4 20:53:35 Target is already passed the meridian 20:53:35 Light set 1 of 1 starting... 20:53:35 Light Series 1: 1 light frame(s), binned 1x1, Red filter, 120 seconds, focus at series start 20:53:35 Guide exposure is 10 sec. 20:53:36 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:53:36 Focusing using Luminance filter... 20:53:36 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:53:36 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.6, Dec: +05 05 30 20:53:41 Moving to focus star number 1, SAO 105663 at 62 deg. altitude 20:53:41 Slewing scope... 20:53:48 Slewed to RA: 20 05 51.4, Dec: +15 31 42 20:53:48 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:55:01 Focuser moved by 29 to 9515 20:55:01 SkyStar failed 20:55:01 Moving to focus star number 2, GSC 1617:2713 at 61 deg. altitude 20:55:01 Slewing scope... 20:55:03 Slewed to RA: 20 01 33.7, Dec: +15 30 27 20:55:03 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:56:09 Focus position: 9455, HFD: 2.8 arc-sec., Temp.: 100.0 20:56:11 Returning to target... 20:56:11 Slewing scope... 20:56:17 Slewed to RA: 19 22 39.4, Dec: +05 05 47 20:56:17 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:56:22 Plate solving... 20:56:22 Telescope RA: 19 22 39.4, Dec: +05 05 47 20:57:14 C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\CCDAutoPilot_SyncImages\SyncImage_SelfGuideR test_205712.fit 20:57:23 Solved RA: 19 22 26.0, Dec: +05 05 05 PA: 260.4 20:57:23 Pointing error (arcmin): RA 3.3; Dec 0.4 20:57:23 Slewing scope... 20:57:25 Slewed to RA: 19 22 26.4, Dec: +05 05 22 20:57:25 Mount settling for 5 sec. after slew. 20:57:30 Location corrected 20:57:39 Done focusing 20:57:43 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.4, Dec: +05 05 23 20:57:43 GuiderPlateScale: 0.65 20:57:43 Guide1: 3-9.0 20:57:43 Getting guide star location... 20:58:15 Guide star peak value: 6590 20:58:18 Guider running 20:58:18 Guider x: 196.0, y: 163.0 20:58:18 Guider stopped. 20:58:18 Dither: +0.0, +0.0, 20:58:25 Guider running 20:58:47 Guide Error X: 0.4, Y: 1.1 20:59:04 Guide Error X: 0.2, Y: 0.5 20:59:04 Altitude: 46 deg. 20:59:04 Exposing... 21:01:13 C:\Documents and Settings\Kirk Carbo\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\Images\081021_SelfGuideR test\Red261W_SelfGuideR test_00007.fit 21:01:17 Guider stopped. 21:01:17 *** Average altitude for this series is 45 deg. 21:01:17 Light Series 2: 1 light frame(s), binned 1x1, Blue filter, 120 seconds. 21:01:17 Guide exposure is 10 sec. 21:01:18 Telescope RA: 19 22 26.5, Dec: +05 05 23 21:01:24 Getting guide star location... 21:01:28 I:SG2, CCDSoft.App: SBIG driver: Bad parameter. Error code = 1006 (0x3ee). 21:01:28 Start Guider Failed. 21:01:28 Guider x: 196.0, y: 163.0 21:01:28 Dither: +0.0, +0.0, 21:02:06 Guider state 5 not reported by CCDSoft after 3 guide exposure cycles 21:02:06 Guider reported state: 0 21:02:06 Guider not started. Trying again to start guider... 21:02:06 Guider running 21:02:58 GuideX error not reported by CCDSoft 21:03:29 GuideY error not reported by CCDSoft 21:03:29 Guide Error X: 0.0, Y: 0.0 21:03:29 Altitude: 45 deg. 21:03:29 Exposing... 21:03:40 Run aborted.