2023-02-25, 01:46 AM
This imaging run was a snap decision. There was a gap in the reservations for T71 & I decided to go for M42. I did check it out using ST4i with the Camera View. That's were I noticed that many stars would saturate. The reservation time put M42 at ~45° above the horizon at the start of exposures. The Scheduler wouldn't have liked that.
I've had trouble getting my reservations on the iTelescopes & using ST4i to set up a Plan takes me a while. I've had folks grab a scope while I was preparing a Plan before & didn't want to miss this opportunity.
For this run, I logged onto T71 & created the Plan right on the scope. Then grabbed the reservation. I only got 44 of the planned 60 images, but since they were in 5 groups of 12 (3x3x3x3), I got some for each filter. Perhaps ST4i needs a flag to collect images in that mode instead of taking all images through one filter at a time.
This was a case where I didn't have time to go through the ST4i workflow & coordinate with the iTelescope reservation system.
Does this answer you questions?
Phil S.
I've had trouble getting my reservations on the iTelescopes & using ST4i to set up a Plan takes me a while. I've had folks grab a scope while I was preparing a Plan before & didn't want to miss this opportunity.
For this run, I logged onto T71 & created the Plan right on the scope. Then grabbed the reservation. I only got 44 of the planned 60 images, but since they were in 5 groups of 12 (3x3x3x3), I got some for each filter. Perhaps ST4i needs a flag to collect images in that mode instead of taking all images through one filter at a time.
This was a case where I didn't have time to go through the ST4i workflow & coordinate with the iTelescope reservation system.
Does this answer you questions?
Phil S.