Starship Asterisk*

This is actually a difficult movie to rate. Normally it gets cloudy for part of the night and then clears up, this movie has several periods of partial clouds. I would say 60-70 and probably record it as 65.

This is not the best way to make sure that everyone's ratings are the same. We need to go through and find movies that would be rated 0, 10, 20, ect. so that there are concrete examples that can be refered to as we are watching and also in our paper One step at a time Space Pimp, we will get to tha...

It is important that everyone have a clear idea of how movies are to be rated. Consistency among everyone rating movies is of the utmost importance. The general idea is this, if a movie shows clouds covering the entire sky for the entire night it is rated a zero, if there are no clouds for the entir...

The HL contact is Garry Nitta
nitta@ifa.hawaii.edu

Dan, perhaps you should write another email to these chaps and tell them our situation, ask them how we would best invest a few hundred (not thousands) of dollars.

The Hanle Concam came online June 01, 2005.

It was recently discussed that we have two different methods used to correct star counts for various photometric difficulties (Atmospheric extinction, Air Glow, Clouds). In whatever form the methods amount to either A) Comparing a star to its history B) Compare a star to other stars at the same time...

Apparently RH is still recovering from the lightning strike, will post an update as soon as I can get one.

The CP Concam stopped working on the 8th, I am waiting for a response from Felipe to find out what the trouble is.

KP has recevied replacement equipment, it has apparently been installed, but the Concam still did not record any images last night, we are still looking in to the problem.

KP has been offline since Mar 13th due to computer problems. Due to continuing problems with their computer it was decided the best thing is to send them a replacement computer. They should recieve the new computer perhaps next week and hopefully the KP Concam will return to working order soon.

MK has been using their older Concam2 for a few months while their newer Concam3 was being repaired. The Concam2 has appeared to be slightly out of focus for some time now, luckily their Concam3 has been repaired and is currently on it's way back to MK. The Concam3 should be installed soon after arr...

Andre tells me they are expeiriencing computer troubles. Apparently their computer is a major slacker and is fond of taking unauthorized naps (bad computer!) Our system experts are on the case and hopefully will be able to bring about an expedient resolution of the problem.

The SA Concam has had its lens repaired and will return to operation soon (tonight perhaps).

I am told a lightning strike took out the internet connection at RH, apparently there were explosions and such. John Oliver tells me they may have to have someone climb a tower to repair the damage so it may be a few days, more as it unfolds...

Great pictures Felipe, it is nice for people to see what the operational setup of a Concam is.

Thanks Herb, I have sent an email to Mike Hawes, will let you know.

deborah wrote:RH Concam appears to be offline showing yesterday's date.

I sent an email to John Oliver, will let you know as soon as I hear back from him.

This month we have a whole new group of rebelious Concams. As soon as the M group (MK, MW) was returned to operation, the S group (SD, SA) decided to quit functioning. SA has not returned an image since March 1st, SD was repaired and returned images for 3 days until going offline again March 9th. Th...

http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl050308/hl050308ut105429a.jpg The visible streaks occur often in the HL movie for Mar 8th. http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl050308/movie-hl050308.gif They seem to originate from a common origin and follow a pattern. My guess would be that they are lasers used for adaptive op...

The HL Concam is back in action tonight and the lens even seems to have finally dried up

The SA Concam has been returning "fuzzy" images for some time now, we have contacted SA personnel and await a response regarding what may be the trouble.

Don Carlos from CI writes "This year we've had an extraordinary amount of snow which has prevented us from gaining access to the telescopes. As soon as we have access to the camera, it will be cleared of snow."

Noctuas_Universe wrote: Anyword yet on the status of the computer and when they might be able to get KP up and running again?

It is still not exactly clear what is wrong with the computer. We are actively involved with the KP staff trying to troubleshoot the problem, we may end up having to send a new computer.

I would guess that the computer has crashed once again, it is possible it may have to come back to MTU for service.