Ad Astra Observatory

It was not really clear out, and not for long, but it was enough to get some good stuff done.

I got Guido focused and gathered a bunch of guiding data, including PEC data (two runs, which I averaged).

The output of the evening left me with two action items. First, the textured finder body is not easy to rotate. So I moved the guide camera to the black finder. That means that both the finder and the guider need to be refocused, no biggie. Second is bigger. I am deciding that the brass worm migh be garbage so I am going to put the steel worm back in. This will hopefully go faster than the last time, but it is still a decently big task. Third, I want to get the C9.25 mounted up so that I cam in theory be shooting Mars while messing with the guider.

The focusing and the new main z ope shouldn’t take long, just needs to get done.

The worm will have to wait for a quiet weekend.