### OBSDATE ### 20120326 ### LOGDATE ### 120326 ### OBSERVERS ### Aaron Rizzuto ### WEATHER ### clear early, then clouds around 11:30pm ### LOCATION ### REMOTE ### PROGRAM ### Mainly Aaron refreshing his skill and if all goes well Sco Cen binary survey and Tau-Sco orbit observations. ### SIDEROSTATS ### n3 s3 ### TARGETS ### None ### QUALITY ### Quite bad (no/almost no useful data ### PROBLEMS ### Had a few problems setting up: Opcon: "error in background- background stopped" which I fixed by restarting the PLC computer. PAVO: "could not open socket to ark7" I didn't resolve this but decided to push on anyway. Was found to be due to having the wring sids selected and was fixed after the sid n3 s3 s command to taskmaster. Could not acquire star on S3 or N3. On Ben's suggestion I did an autocollimation for both S3 and N3 and found that they were both only a little bit out. Tried spiralling again, I decided to turn the intensifier up and the star appeared on N3. The intensifier was set well above 2/3 so there were definitely clouds at this point. Unfortunately when I hit track n3 just kept spiralling and I lost the star. Switched to S3 and acquired the star after a bit if searching and had it visible and servoing on PAVO. model offsets: -14.96, -127.332 After this got completely clouded out.