### OBSDATE ### 20120319 ### LOGDATE ### 120319 ### OBSERVERS ### BAW (at home), YK (at home) ### WEATHER ### More or less clear; a bit of cloud early on, and perhaps a bit of haze throughout. Rising humidity. ### LOCATION ### REMOTE ### PROGRAM ### Get a star on S1 ### SIDEROSTATS ### n1 s1 ### TARGETS ### hr 3634 hr 3487 ### QUALITY ### Quite bad (no/almost no useful data ### PROBLEMS ### First of all, S1 had to be auto-collimated due to the encoder tweaking last trip. The azimuth position was found at 180.056 for the south autocol, meaning we did an excellent job of realigning it; north has not yet been done. After 30 minutes of searching, we finally found a star with S1. When the star was acquired, the azimuth offset was ~ +300". Fringes may have been glimpsed on hr 3634, but they were unconvincing. Fringe visibility was expected to be quite low due to the angular diameter of the target. As Yitping wanted to do some MUSCA testing, we tried a nearby calibrator. Fringes were not acquired there either, possibly due to the relatively low brightness (magnitude 3.9). Due to the rapidly changing pointing offset, it was decided to just sit on the star tracking in order gather pointing data (I did not believe we would be able to find another star in another part of the sky). We stopped shortly after 11pm when the humidity exceeded 85%. The final azimuth offset was -1366. MUSCA operated in the background for testing, but as there were no fringes, little was accomplished.