McDonald 2.1m Argos July 2012 Observer: JJ Hermes Date (UT) : 2012-07-15 Start time (UTC): 02:46:52 Run Length : 4040 Number of frames: 809 Star name : J1753.5-0127 Coordinates : 17 53 28.3 -01 27 06 Chip Position : 235,180 Exposure time : 5 Magnitude : V~16.5 Filter : BVR Seeing (") : 1.5 Temp (F) : 70 Humidity (%) : 41 Wind (mph) : 11 Particle (ppcf) : 12000 Cloud : 2/10 ------------------------------------------------ Information relevant to the whole night: Sunset : 21:06 CDT Sunrise : 6:59 CDT Moonrise : 03:57 CDT Moonphase: 0.145 ------------------------------------------------ Observations are concurrent with BOV star party on the 107", so they will suffer from constant headlights of the cars heading up the mountain. Will try to note any frame that is highly effected. Timecheck (02:47:30) OK A few wind gusts here and there caused some bad wind bounce for the first hour or so until the telescope got higher. 3500s: Clouds starting to wipe out counts. Frame 809, Time 4040, Quilt issued dialog "Can't isolate stars", followed by dialog "Stopped run J1753-2" Curiously, the intensities had begun to recover when the program stopped. DWC. Does not seem to be related to the noise spikes (the software actually couldn't find the stars), but the Terminal window spit out the error "[3047]C3_STAT_DMA_OVERRUN DMA data overrun has occurred Will restart as J1753-3.