### OBSDATE ### 20120308 ### LOGDATE ### 120309 ### OBSERVERS ### BAW, YK ### WEATHER ### Clear, but rising humidity (it exceeded 90%, but don't worry, I checked that the surfaces, and particularly the mirrors, inside the siderostat housings remained dry) ### LOCATION ### SUSI ### PROGRAM ### M-stars. MUSCA testing. ### SIDEROSTATS ### n1 s2 ### TARGETS ### calibrators: hr 4656 hr 4853 Gam Cru (hr 4763) ### QUALITY ### Quite bad (no/almost no useful data ### PROBLEMS ### Alignment targets had been left on "do not touch" mirrors preventing starlight from getting to pavo. Broken wire caused intermittent "north periscope in" signal on N1. I re-soldered the wire, but I still got a false signal once. Interestingly, that caused the rate adjustments to be applied with the wrong sign, first pushing the star off pavo, and then pushing it out of the acquisition camera when I tried to reacquire it. Restarting the server fixed the problem. I will double check my solder job, tomorrow. Initially, it was very hard to get fringes. I don't really know why, but as the targets rose, it got much better, so it could be high airmass or high OPLC tracking speed causing the problem. Fringes were once again very hard to get on Gamma Cru (though I did catch brief glimpses). I suspect a combination of large angular diameter and the problems listed above. I took some data, but I don't suspect it is very useful. I will try again when I can get it near transit, and/or S1 is available. Taskmaster park failed to turn either AC on. There are a couple of "Failed to read message header." errors in the k108 log. This may be the issue. Perhaps, a pause needs to be introduced so that k108 is not clobbered with a bunch of messages at once. I'll look at this later.