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- Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Photometric versus Nonphotometric nights
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3041
Photometry of one star might sometimes be confusing. For instance, the opacity maps show a big cloud crossing the north part of the sky. http://nightskylive.net/mk/mk041015/mk041015ut105429v.jpg Looking at the set of opacity maps we can see it crossing the sky. The first meteor picture is not a mete...
- Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:55 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: parallex determination
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1519
- Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Sources of WOLF now available.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3480
Sources of WOLF now available.
All sources of WOLF are now available at http://www.nightskylive.net/wolf/source
- Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What are these objects?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7045
- Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:53 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: New! APOD software
- Replies: 125
- Views: 275353
- Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Starting SD WO files on time
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5872
- Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Leonids 2001
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2660
- Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:12 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Starting SD WO files on time
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5872
WO has a much faster machine than SD. Therefore, camsnap.exe starts faster at WO so the exposure starts earlier. One option is to change the code of camsnap.exe so it will start before the picture should be taken, and starts the exposure exactly at the time that is given as a parameter (a new parame...
- Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:31 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: New! APOD software
- Replies: 125
- Views: 275353
Great idea, but I have had several times where the APOD program starts taking up 99% of my CPU and slows my computer to an absolute halt (requiring me to shut it down with the Task Manager). Because of this, I have been forced to remove the program. Also, it would be nice if the program (a) kept th...
- Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 24 hours movie
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4448
Re: 24 hours movie
Maybe it will work now.tilvi wrote:The last 24 hours movie on the NSL front page doesn't seems to work
http://nightskylive.net/worldmap/wm-movie.gif
- Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mauna Kea (MK) CONCAM status
- Replies: 38
- Views: 28898
- Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Cerro Pachon (CP) CONCAM status
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14494
- Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Which CONCAMs can do photometry?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2188
- Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What are these objects?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7045
- Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Meteor parallax information
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3944
- Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:57 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What are these objects?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7045
- Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What are these objects?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7045
What are these objects?
http://nightskylive.net/mk/mk040924/mk040924ut145101p.jpg There are two bright objects near the north star. We could guess they are meteors or satellite glints, but if that was the case, we should have seen them also at Haleakala. The fact that these objects are at a low altitude north to Mauna Kea...
- Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Meteor parallax information
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3944
Meteor parallax information
The two following two images captured the same meteor at the same time in both Haleakala and Mauna Kea (near the north star): http://nightskylive.net/mk/mk040922/mk040922ut150252p.jpg http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl040922/hl040922ut150251a.jpg I was curious to see what information can be analyzed by u...
- Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:26 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: New! APOD software
- Replies: 125
- Views: 275353
- Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Cerro Pachon (CP) CONCAM status
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14494
I agree. This must be the iris. The low counts that we get implies that this is the problem. We had the same problem in Mauna Kea and they opened the iris to get a whole different picture. I don't think it should be so difficult to do, even though you need a screw driver to get to the iris ring. I d...
- Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:08 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Haleakala photometry
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2450
Haleakala photometry
It seems that we get some productive photometry data from Haleakala. For instance, HD12929.
http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl040916/HD12929.html
It is very clear that the counts are well corelated with the altitude of the star.
http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl040916/HD12929.html
It is very clear that the counts are well corelated with the altitude of the star.
- Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: HL image streak not on MK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5107
I think that the airplane is just to low, and the two concams are too far from each other to see it. Also, this airplane is at the north of Haleakala, while MK is at the south. Maybe if the airplane was at the south of Haleakala it would be also visible by MK. Anyway, the airplane should be no highe...
- Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: HL image streak not on MK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5107
Re: Streak
I noticed this streak too.....if you look at the whole sequence for that period of time i also saw that the surrounding buildings features in the periphery of the cam image were breifly illuminated during the passage of this object. If this is in fact the case then the argument for a meteor becomes...
- Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:44 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Haleakala (HL) CONCAM status
- Replies: 47
- Views: 46719
HL software is running
The software for hl-concam should be now fully functional. Opacity maps are expected to be generated in just few days from now, after the software aquires some data.
- Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:42 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mauna Kea (MK) CONCAM status
- Replies: 38
- Views: 28898
MK software is up
Although still in the parking lot, and only about 50% of the sky is visible, the software that generates photometry files is now running.