New Members
All, ? 3 new additions to this list: ? Kai G in Ohio, a long-time IOTA participant Andy S in Maryland, same Sandy L in Virginia, a professor at Radford University ? ? Steve
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Steve C
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Re: Wow!
Rooster tail, high cirrus clouds kept me from using 4X integration on the WATEC. Previous testing showed 4X, and even 2X would work with good sky conditions. I went with an 8x integration , Fearing
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rickbria22
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Re: Wow!
Okay, thanks. I'll use that for IOTA....and report via the European portal... ...Kevin [email protected]> wrote:
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Kevin Hartnett
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Re: Wow!
Hi Kevin: Nice job!! Always a nice feeling when the odds are stacked against you and the effort pays off! As for your report format... I looked back on a couple past satellite Pos events and what I
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George Viscome
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Re: Wow!
I was fortunate regarding clouds too. It took me a long time to get polar aligned because of so many clouds to my north. The target star was definitely bright enough in my RunCam (with my 8" SCT) to
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Kevin Hartnett
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Re: Wow!
Yes, nice job to everyone. It was a race between the clouds (and nasty winter storm for me) coming in and the event time. Looks like most of us won. I found it interesting on OW that observers who
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George Viscome
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Re: Wow!
High clouds, but Jupiter was peeking through on our All-Sky Camera here in Westport, so the decision was go for launch, and it didn't disappoint. My only regret was running at 0.5 second exposures
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Kevin Green
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Re: Wow!
Great job Team NEUS!?? While I was out, ready and watching, hoping that the patch of clear sky would stay and play awhile, the clouds moved in turning Jupiter into a fuzzy blob and obscuring Uranus.
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R. Kamin
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Wow!
Looks like the NEUS crew came through big time on Titania!? I thought I was doomed when I set-up and could just barely see Uranus at 8x, but I was able to record at 2x.? For once cloud timing worked
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Steve C
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Re: Occult4 201
George, ? Yep, that got me up to 134K asteroids--not quite the same as you, but close enough.? Thanks. ? ? Steve
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Steve C
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Re: Occult4 201
Steve: I strongly suspect that the following is your issue......... In order to do a "deep search" (meaning, involve a LOT of asteroids in the search), they have to be in your database === to begin
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George Viscome
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Re: Occult4 201
George, ? I'm trying to recreate what you ran.? I find I'm unable to match the number of asteroids in box 3 Select Asteroids.? Where you have 1 - 2023 UV10 (142537 asteroids), I only get 1 -
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Steve C
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Re: Occult4 201
George, When you pick a date/time, I can set the Zoom up on our account to get around the free versions limitations. BTW, reading your comment about the zero % events and small travel distances was a
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Steve C
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Astrid Day 1
All, I received my Astrid today.? Assembly was easy.? My only issues so far: 1.? I cannot connect to it using my Android tablet.? No issue with my wife's IPad and my Win laptop. 2.? I cannot
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Steve C
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Re: Occult4 201
Hi Roxanne (& All): Great that you are "consistently getting results". ...Tho you can't get much with a Mag 10 limit. I agree. Probably best to do a Zoom session at this point. Let me look over the
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George Viscome
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Occult4 201
In reading Dave H's comments about running Occult for a month date range... I don't know how he does it. As it takes my set-up (i7 gaming laptop w 16GB ram, lottsa SSD space, no other apps running)
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R. Kamin
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Re: If clear on Nov 15th UT - 3 NEUS observers in the path....
Steve: Congrats! I see you got a 1 sec positive (this one being a "good" positive!). (BTW: Hope you are feeling better!). Chalk up another one to the result of an Occult4 search (this was a "no show"
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George Viscome
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Re: Tale of 2 Occultations (subtitle - Occult4 201)
George, ? Thanks for this.? It ties in well with my goal of automating the observatory for data collection.? Here's where I think I'm going. ? The basic equipment list is a TI PD10 dome, Paramount
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Steve C
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Tale of 2 Occultations (subtitle - Occult4 201)
All: It's a 'good' thing to know how to generate your own predictions in Occult4. Here's a couple reasons why... Several days ago I noticed a nice early-evening event (7:03pm) when I generated a
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George Viscome
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Re: If clear on Nov 15th UT - 3 NEUS observers in the path....
Steve: NO. This event was not listed on my OW Desktop (I found it via Occult4). But.... I did just search for it on OW Cloud, found it and Tagged it, and submitted my site. It (only) then appeared on
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George Viscome
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