Ad Astra Observatory

PemPro needed some calibration before things would work today. Nothing major. I got it a little more dialed in. I finally figured out what it was complaining about — it thought it was supposed to do dark frame calibration in Max and I hadn’t set Max up with any darks. No biggie; it’s cool out tonight and the camera hasn’t been on long so I turned calibration off.

It’s in the middle of a 1 hour “Acquire Data” run. Looks like the worm without PEC is doing about +12/-8 in RA. We’ll see what PEC does to that.

Again, things are getting dialed in. The polar alignment seems pretty good, the autofocus is working, now I have the PEC thing in process.

I am just about ready for spring.