### OBSDATE ###
20131203

### LOGDATE ###
131204

### OBSERVERS ###
MJI (ACR early in evening for checkout)

### WEATHER ###
Thin clouds, ~50% humidity, 13 km/hr wind at ATCA, 8 km/hr at SUSI

### LOCATION ###
Home

### PROGRAM ###
Fringes on the new Nova in Centaurus (or at least check the system out ready for this)

### SIDEROSTATS ###
 n3    s3 

### TARGETS ###
HR 3685 (beta Car)
HD 9110 (Nova Cen 2013, no fringes)
HR 5267 (beta Cen)

### QUALITY ###
  Quite bad (no/almost no useful data

### PROBLEMS ###
Moderately long spiral search...

N3 offsets: 10 -180
S3 offsets: 19 -156

Fringes at -460 (HR 3685) with poor seeing and poor S/N.
Realigned - fringes still not great (only tiny alignment needed... N looks like focus could be improved)

Thin clouds evident near dawn, as soon as the sky was bright enough to see them.

Running at "coolon -40", gain=200 didn't have enough flux... changed to gain-220 on nova

S beam lost briefly during initial NOVA fringe search. Given expected low S/N, decided to stick to -800 to 0 for the fringe search (should be within 1.8 arcsec...)

Checked fringes on beta Cen (HR 5267). Fringes also found at -460, also intermittent.  Used the opportunity to refocus North. After re-homing, optimal N focus was at 238000. S focus appears fine... but also would need re-homing.

Note that a good cal for tomorrow may be HR 5358 (v Cen). Needs to be checked...

Lost beta Cen due to sky brightness 3 minutes before sunrise.

On shutdown (the "park" command), the siderostats crashed... then N3 wouldn't index its elevation. Something to be checked later in the day...