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The cam is not available on the homepage. Is there any problem?????

Dear Friends, First of all my apology for not being able to report the status for quite a long period but guess am back now. As one of our kind member has reported....the cam's last picture seems to be of April 02, 2006. A kind request to send in a technician to check the problem would be quite good...

ConCam is doing good. But I think there is some water on the centre. It covers some 1/4th or 1/5th part of the lens. Else details are good.

The sky is clear and so the Saturn is clearly visible rising from the east followed by Sun.

Hey,

This is really great news. Hoping to get it online as get my 6" Newtonian.

Clear Skies,

The ConCam is online now. Though the moon outshines most of the stars, the software is able to detect bright stars like hydra and lyra.

Seems the last image returned by the CONCAM was on the morning of 18th at around 15:38 UT which is about 05:38 AM local time. No further images have been uploaded. Also the server is returning empty archives.

The waxing moon on the east is fading most of the stars in the west. A drop of water is seen in the north-east portion of the lens.

Sky Report: The Moon is in Sagittarius with a phase of 22%, and is 25.4 days old. New Moon will occur in 4.1 days time. It rises at 03:09, transits at 08:33, and sets at 13:59. It is visible in the morning sky. Mercury in Pisces with a magnitude of -0.9, a phase of 72%, and a diameter of 6". I...

Tonight's Sky: A laser star guide from Keck Observatory is pointing somewhere in the sky. Its visible on the north east portion of the sky. Visual Magnitude Limit is around 3.5 - 4.0. On the western limb, Galactic Plane is visible. Also some of the brightest stars like Sirius(-1.09), Arcturus(0.16)...

Moon at 73.8% fades away most of the stars limiting the visible magnitude to 3.0. The screen seems to be oval in shape. Don't know why.

The sky is clear dark with nice look of Milky Way. The saturn rests in the center with moon just below horzon with phase at 83.9%. Magnitude visible is around 7.0. No problem with cam operation.

The moon is around 12 degress above horizon and still rising. The waning moon at 98.9% outshines most of the stars but still Sirius(alpha Canis Majoris) in South, Saturn in the near center, Capella (alpha Aurigae) in North West are visibile. Magnitude limit is around 1.5-2.0. A still comet like obje...

Waiting for the same sir.

You may right click the image and use "Copy Shortcut" you will get it copied onto your keybord then use to inert the picutre into the post. eg. to insert the MK Concam image.

Still CCD is down showing off strange "treeline" images. Waiting for the tech person to get it up ready.

Thanx Sir,

I am waiting to start monitoring as soon as it gets ready.