UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer. | We can haz pdf
<WeylandsWings>
raptop: i remembered how much i hate swapping out cameras and refocussing and reailgning cameras tonight
<raptop>
haha, beamsplitter go brrr
<raptop>
Anyway, no observing tonight here, but there are thunderstorms
<WeylandsWings>
raptop: refocusing was okay in the end just massively time consuming , but realigning the mount/main camera/widefield was such a pain we called it off so we could bring other stuff next time the weather is good
<raptop>
ow
<raptop>
theoretically we have robofocus, but that often causes problems, so there's a manually listed set point and then a bit of hand adjusting
<WeylandsWings>
we also had an issue where we had put the wrong extender on the scope (2" instead of the 3") which made focusing more annoying, and we do it by hand
<WeylandsWings>
plus this scope only has one focusing wheel so good luck getting it precise
<WeylandsWings>
we didnt even get to creating the mount model tonight
<raptop>
whelp
<raptop>
How big is this scope, anyway?
<WeylandsWings>
hard to start on the mount model when the scope and WFOV camera arent aligned
<raptop>
(since it sounds a lot more mobile than the 0.8 m I'm usually using. Or that 3 m once in a blue moon)
<WeylandsWings>
its on the smaller side
<raptop>
aaaaa
<WeylandsWings>
i dont rememeber off the top of my head maybe 7 or 8 inch?
<raptop>
ah
<raptop>
all the fun of messing with electronics alongside the fun of aligning finderscopes
<WeylandsWings>
mount model is all software... tell the scope to point at a star, be stunned at how far off it is, try to center as good as possible, repeat for like 20 stars with errors decreasing
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<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn
* galois
gives egg|anbo|egg an operational Ohio gonad
<raptop>
(I assume that's an altitude, but even so)
<raptop>
@_@ 136.2 km altitude Earth flyby
<egg|anbo|egg>
raptop: yeah I didn’t notice those
<egg|anbo|egg>
I guess we need to add atmospheric effects :-p
<UmbralRaptop>
heh
<UmbralRaptop>
!seen ferram4
<galois>
UmbralRaptop: I last saw ferram4 in here 1 year, 1 month ago, saying: Alternatively, use the turbojets to zoom climb and use the dive to pick up speed to light the ramjets
<UmbralRaptop>
=\
<egg|anbo|egg>
that is a normal thing to say
<egg|anbo|egg>
ferram still eggsists on discord though