Off-centre images taken by BOOTES-2 through GLORIA

angelagonzalez commented 10 years ago

24-06-2014 (22-23 UT) BOOTES-2: the telescope didn't point well. Examples: M51, Saturn and Mars. Also tested with M92 and M13.

This problem was first reported more than a month ago and maybe the reason why the images were offset was that, when they are taken through XMLRCP, no calibration precision of the mount is done, unlike when RTS2 operates autonomously.

Tonight, the owner of the telescopes explains that model was not loaded after restart of the mount. This should be made automatic.

I list here the coordinates extracted from the FITS headers after having taken the off-centre images:

M51: RA= '253.7627416561472' DEC= '3.1489171580749082'
MARS: RA= '250.22409062434238' DEC= '36.46130506270808' (DAT-OBS = '2014-06-24T22:28:42' / UT start of exposure)
SATURN: RA= '225.200198766565' DEC= '-14.619995583914354' (DAT-OBS = '2014-06-24T22:57:17' / UT start of exposure)

imgenes descentradas

angelagonzalez commented 10 years ago

El operador de telescopio ha cargado el modelo de apuntado en la inicialización del driver de BOOTES-2. Solucionado a la espera de comprobación.

angelagonzalez commented 10 years ago

El apuntado de BOOTES-2 esta noche es perfecto. Cierro la incidencia.

GLORIA-project / GLORIA_RTSInteractiveRTS2

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