Simplifying My Remote Systems
Raining here in northcentral PA today, so I'm working on filling your inboxes! ? My first Astrid system consists of a C-5 on a manual Astrotech Voyager mount, with 0.33x focal reducer.? I really
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Steve C
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#362
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Re: OT-Lunar meteor impact imaging?
Thanks George: The earthshine area is under watch by the ALPO impact watch at that time, but I have not looked to see if an impact area " phase form" is posted. But usually if the date is listed, it
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Lawrence Garrett
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#361
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Re: Occult Horizons Errors
It apparently was something to do with my user file of events.? It was working fine a few minute prior to the issue starting, and would have the same issue after several reboots and software
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Steve C
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Re: Sometimes a MISS can be a good thing...
All: .....And yet again!! This time it skimmed past the Target Star 20 seconds after the (positive) occultation. Tho it doesn't look like it in the stacked image (of 10 frames), the Target Star and
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George Viscome
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Re: OT-Lunar meteor impact imaging?
Lawrence, ? No reason to take the discussion off-line in my opinion, a fair number of IOTA folks have support lunar impact work over the years.? I'd be interested in participating, but my
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Steve C
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Re: Occult Horizons Errors
Steve: In an earlier post you also mentioned this error. I've also seen similar Horizon connection issues, but I've never seen in my error messages the part that said "Could not create SSL/TLS secure
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George Viscome
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Re: OT-Lunar meteor impact imaging?
Hi Lawrence: [To all - Lawrence has a long history of asteroid work (and has a rock named for him). He has captured several occultations and has a RunCam NE2 and VTI. He's not too far from Burlington
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George Viscome
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Occult Horizons Errors
Anyone else having the "Error requesting data from Horizons, Horizons will be skipped for next 20 secs.? The request was aborted:? Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel." problem this morning??
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Steve C
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OT-Lunar meteor impact imaging?
Greetings All: With possible Perseids lunar impacts visible ~August 12 0h UT, any takers for a project that may well keep you home for a change? Put those camera's and VTI's to work? We can take it
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Lawrence Garrett
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Re: 8051 Pistoria
All, ? I provided the information that Norm wanted on this event to him, and he's forwarding it on to Dave H.? If I hear more, I'll let you know. ? Steve
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Steve C
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Re: Astrid: Camera only mode?
The Astrid can run in standalone / camera only mode.?? I haven't ventured into having it talk to a mount.... ***
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R. Kamin
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Astrid: Camera only mode?
Can Astrid be run in camera only mode or must it talk to a mount?
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Kevin Green
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Re: 8051 Pistoria
Steve, Roxanne, Kai: Noble attempts - Congrats. I have to wonder about those 9th mag (or brighter) Targets... I've also missed a couple bright "sure things". Yes Kevin, Dave did say to let him know of
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George Viscome
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Re: 8051 Pistoria
That's one for Dave Herald. I think he posted that he wanted to know of high prob events that were misses.
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Kevin Green
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8051 Pistoria
All, ? Roxanne and I deployed 4 stations for this rank 100, mag 9.5 event early this morning.? All stations recorded the star passing through center at the predicted event time.? All stations ran
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Steve C
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Re: (8051) Pistoria Early Monday AM
Steve: Yes, you look to be mainly cloud-free (maybe not "fog-free") for your event (roughly at the arrow) - Best of Luck! If anything I would be driving down the Northway to Schroon Lake, NY (where
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George Viscome
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Re: July 27UT (623)
The clouds for tonight here (Wellsboro) are still not suppose roll in until about 8 AM.? My bigger worry is fog, especially at my new site that is right by a large lake.? We will have fog, just a
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Steve C
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Re: July 27UT (623)
Even if clear skies, this was quite a 'tough' event - being so low to the horizon. Thx to all who tried. Wish it were more often that paths crossed several of us. Almost always it's just 1 observer.
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George Viscome
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Re: July 27UT (623)
There was a bank of clouds that refused to leave the southern sky for about 24 hours¡ or more. Very strange as there was almost no movement. Almost half the sky was covered. It simply wasn¡¯t
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rickbria22
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Re: July 27UT (623)
Made the attempt....... Hazy horizons and VERY bad seeing did me in. I do get a plot of the Target Star in the "Py's", but it's buried too much in noise. Almost, but not quite. Had to go to 1/2 sec
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George Viscome
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