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by bchitwood
Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:22 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Mauna Kea (MK) CONCAM status
Replies: 38
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Mauna Kea now running CONCAM3

I swapped out the CONCAM2 on the roof of the SMA hangar with the CONCAM3 following the repair of its CCD camera by SBIG. Focus appears decent from the first images. Still an issue with secure communications, but it booted up well, and appears to be capturing and posting images.
by bchitwood
Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:53 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Mauna Kea (MK) CONCAM status
Replies: 38
Views: 28908

CONCAM2 up , preliminary focus performed in daylight

It would appear that my daytime focus efforts utilizing Subaru,a cardboard box, and an old Dell laptop running the CCDOPS program went better than I expected. In addition to getting a rough focus, I was eventually able to get an Ethernet connection, but only by disconnecting the hub and running the ...