### OBSDATE ### 20131216 ### LOGDATE ### 131217 ### OBSERVERS ### MJI ### WEATHER ### Clear, light winds ### LOCATION ### Home ### PROGRAM ### Nova Cen 2013 ### SIDEROSTATS ### n4 s2 ### TARGETS ### HR 5132 (fringes at +200, moving rapidly) HR 9110 Nova Cen (no fringes on 3 searches -100 to 400) HR 5463 (fringes at +150, weak and jumping L to R, counts 13,000) HR 9110 (possible fringes at +70, STT intermittently losing lock and a factor of 3 fainter than NTT, fringe counts 5,000) HR 5463 (tweaked S15 alignment and STT too) HR 9110 (still no fringes... about -150 to 250 searches) HR 5358 (V=4.3, weak fringes obtained on first pass at +150) ### QUALITY ### Quite bad (no/almost no useful data ### PROBLEMS ### N4 had a "failed to allocate memory for message" error and had to be restarted (sidcon, not whole computer) The increase in flux for Nova Can 2013 especially with time on the South beam points towards vignetting before 5am. This gives a *really* narrow observation window given that the sky is too bright by about 5:30am for reliable observations.