20:51:53 Setup Information 20:51:53 Equipment Settings Observer: Chris Provost Observatory: 4 C's Telescope: Tak 102 TSA Mount type: Equatorial Self guider or off-axis guider used for guiding Imaging camera: SBIG ST-2000XM CCD Camera Imager pixel size: 7.40 Telescope focal length: 622 Imager image scale: 2.450 Imaging camera gain: 0.55 Guide camera pixel size: 7.40 Guide focal length: 622 Guider image scale: 2.45 Guide rate: 1.00 Guider1: 2x0.0328.1 Guider2: 1500150058.5E1 Rot: 239 Rotator offset: 1.2 E Mount settling time: 3 sec. 1x1 download time: 5 sec. 2x2 download time: 3 sec. 3x3 download time: 2 sec. Other delays: 1 sec. Software Settings CCDAutoPilot, Version: 3.42.7, Standard Edition Licensed to: lineman_16735@yahoo.com System profile: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\System Profiles\TSA F6 AP900.app Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 CCDSoft version 5.00.188 being used for image acquisition. Camera Relays being used for guider movement Minimum move: 0.24 sec. Maximum move: 0.33 sec. Aggressiveness: 8 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 COM7 CCDSoft/TheSky used for plate solving Plate solve sub-frame: 1/2 Plate solve filter: Clear Plate solve binning: 1x1 Plate solve exposure time: 30 SBIG standard FITS keywords will be inserted into the FITS header. Tracking and Guiding Settings Telescope slew to an altitude below 15 will be prevented. Guided operation being used with a peak enhanced dither of 1.00 pixels. AGSR enabled for 30 cycles to get within 0.4 pixels. An audible alarm will sound if the guide star is not recovered. Focus Settings FocusMax is using the EasyFocus.Focuser focuser driver SkyStar being used for focusing. Focus star will be centered via precision slew 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. Focusing will be performed every 60 minutes. Filter Parameters Filter Offset Focus Exposure Clear 0 0.2 Red 0 0.2 Green 0 0.2 Blue 0 0.2 HA 0 1.0 None 0 0.2 None 0 0.2 None 0 0.2 None 0 0.2 None 0 0.2 Meridian Flip Settings Automatic meridian crossing enabled. The mount will be momentarily slewed well past the meridian to insure a flip. The mount will be resynchronized after the meridian crossing. The guide star will be automatically selected after meridian crossing. A focus run will occur immediately after the meridian crossing. The mount will track for 5 minutes past the meridian before flipping. WARNING: the mount will be allowed to track up to 8 minutes past the meridian. The rotator will rotate 180 degrees upon meridian crossing. Session and Options 1. Startup Tasks Session will start at 20:49 19 Oct. Light frames for the specified target(s) will be obtained. Precision slew to target with sync after slew will be used. 2. After Light Frames Telescope will be parked after light frames are completed. Telescope tracking will be turned off after light frames are completed. 3. Shutdown tasks 20:51:53 20:51:53 Run starting... 20:51:53 Log saved to: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test\CCDAutoPilot_Logs\ccdap20081019_205153.log 20:51:54 *** Review setup before starting session *** 20:51:54 20:51:54 Root save path: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test\ 20:51:54 System profile: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\CCDWare\CCDAutoPilot3\System Profiles\TSA F6 AP900.app 20:51:54 Target List: 20:51:54 Start sequence number: 1 20:51:54 20:51:54 20:51:54 Light Frames 20:51:54 Telescope connected (0) 20:51:56 Telescope tracking on 20:51:56 Target: NGC281 at RA: 00 52 59.3, Dec: +56 37 19 , PA: 305.0 20:51:56 Rise: n/a 20:51:56 45° E elevation: 19:37 19 Oct 20:51:56 Transit: 00:06 20 Oct 20:51:56 45° W elevation: 04:35 20 Oct 20:51:56 Set: n/a 20:51:57 Slewing scope... 20:51:59 Slewed to RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:51:59 Mount settling for 3 sec. after slew. 20:52:02 Telescope RA: 00 53 33.7, Dec: +56 40 25 20:52:02 Rotating to PA: 305.0e 20:52:02 Rotator moving to: 304 20:52:02 Plate solving... 20:52:02 Telescope RA: 00 53 33.7, Dec: +56 40 25 20:52:45 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test\CCDAutoPilot_SyncImages\SyncImage_NGC281_205245.fit 20:52:52 Solved RA: 00 52 59.0, Dec: +56 37 41 PA: 305.6 20:52:58 Sync'd to RA: 00 53 32.5, Dec: +56 40 47 20:52:58 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:52:58 Telescope reports RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:52:58 Pointing error (arcmin): RA -0.1; Dec 0.4 20:52:58 Slewing scope... 20:53:00 Slewed to RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:53:00 Mount settling for 3 sec. after slew. 20:53:03 Sync'd 20:53:03 Telescope currently pointing to... 20:53:03 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:53:03 Plate solving... 20:53:03 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:53:39 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test\CCDAutoPilot_SyncImages\SyncImage_NGC281_205339.fit 20:53:45 Solved RA: 00 52 59.5, Dec: +56 37 28 PA: 305.6 20:53:45 Target RA: 00 52 59.5, Dec: +56 37 28 , PA: 305.6 20:53:46 Meridian crossing after 00:11 Mon 20 Oct 20:53:46 Light set 1 of 1 starting... 20:53:46 Light Series 1: 1 light frame(s), binned 1x1, HA filter, 60 seconds. 20:53:46 Guide exposure is 7 sec. 20:53:47 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:53:55 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:53:55 GuiderPlateScale: 2.45 20:53:55 Guide1: 133.0 20:53:55 Getting guide star location... 20:54:15 Guide star peak value: 7831 20:54:18 Guider running 20:54:18 Guider x: 141.0, y: 218.0 20:54:19 Guider stopped. 20:54:19 Dither: +0.0, +0.0, 20:54:26 Guider running 20:54:40 Guide Error X: 0.2, Y: 0.5 20:54:52 Guide Error X: 0.4, Y: 0.1 20:54:52 Altitude: 55 deg. 20:54:52 Exposing... 20:56:03 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test\081019_NGC281\30minHA_NGC281_00001.fit 20:56:06 Guider stopped. 20:56:06 *** Average altitude for this series is 55 deg. 20:56:08 Telescope tracking off 20:56:12 Telescope tracking on 20:56:12 Telescope RA: 00 53 32.8, Dec: +56 40 25 20:56:12 Slewing scope... 20:56:18 Slewed to RA: 01 54 11.0, Dec: +56 43 11 20:56:18 Mount settling for 3 sec. after slew. 20:56:21 Parking telescope... 20:56:36 Telescope parked. 20:56:36 20:56:36 Total light exposure time is 0 hours, 1.1 minutes 20:56:36 Total dark exposure time is 0 hours, 0.0 minutes 20:56:36 Run completed.