Category: Astronomy Report

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Name: Rob Hunt
Crew: 291
Date: 22/01/2024 (entered Sim. 12:00)
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: None
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: Total cloud 100% all day. Seeing zero.

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 05 Jan 2024

MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri (unless cloud cover)
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested N/A (Technical Difficulties with MDRS-WF)
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: None
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: N/A
Images submitted with this report: N/A
Problems Encountered: N/A
Additional Notes: Will continue to monitor the status of MDRS-WF and hopefully make a few follow-up observations of M1 and M42, processing images remotely. Will also continue to troubleshoot doing photometry using AstroImageJ to compare against values from AfterGlow.

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 04 Jan 2024

MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri (unless cloud cover)
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested N/A (Technical Difficulties with MDRS-WF)
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: None
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: N/A
Images submitted with this report: N/A
Problems Encountered: N/A

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astronomy-report]

Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 03 Jan 2024

MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri (unless cloud cover)
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested N/A (Technical Difficulties with MDRS-WF)
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: None
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: N/A
Images submitted with this report: N/A
Problems Encountered: N/A

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 02 Jan 2024

MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri (unless cloud cover)
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula), M42 (Orion Nebula) (unless cloud cover)
Images submitted with this report: M1

Problems Encountered: Neither M1 nor M42 have been imaged.

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: N/A
Images submitted with this report: N/A
Problems Encountered: N/A

Additional Notes: I’ve decided to process the previous images I took of M1 when I first arrived for the sake of practice and feedback.

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 01 Jan 2024

MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula), M42 (Orion Nebula)
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: Neither M1 nor M42 have been imagined. Furthermore, I wanted to process the M1 images I currently have for the practice, despite them being overexposed. However, there doesn’t seem to be any flat or dark calibration images taken. Is this problematic? If so, how should I set up an observation to make sure that they are there?

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: N/A
Images submitted with this report: N/A
Problems Encountered: N/A
Additional Notes: I was able to get reasonable estimates for the magnitudes of my images of SW Tau using Afterglow (between 9.3 and 10.4). However, I just wanted to get numbers from AstroImageJ for comparison but am having trouble in choosing the aperture sizes. I noticed that magnitude is variable depending on the size of the aperture I choose and am not sure how to go about choosing the radius of object aperture and inner/outer radius of background annulus? The video tutorials seem to show that there is an ‘Auto’ option for this which is not available on my end.

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 31 Dec 2023
MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula), M42
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered:M1 has yet to image

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 30 Dec 2023
MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula)
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: Last night’s images were not taken. Hopefully they go through tonight.

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 29 Dec 2023
MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: None

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula)
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: Previous images were overexposed, so new images will be taken using the LRGBH filters with 120s, 60s, 120s, 240s, 240s exposures, respectively.

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

Additional comments: Is there a way to setup images of SW Tau to be taken at distinct times throughout the night? I’d like to take two exposures at around 8pm and around 12am if possible. Furthermore, I found the photometry videos for SW Tau very helpful and was able to obtain magnitudes using both programs.

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Name: Gabriel Skowronek
Crew: 289
Date: 28 Dec 2023
MONTANA LEARNING CENTER
Robotic Telescope Requested RCOS-16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: SW Tauri
Images submitted with this report: Profile of SW Tau as taken from AstroImageJ

Problems Encountered: Attempted to use AstroImageJ for photometry measurements and it seems that the images I’ve captured may be overexposed.

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M1 (Crab Nebula)
Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

Additional comments: I will submit tonight’s observations of SW TAU to have an exposure time of 20.0s, 17.0s, 15.0s instead of 30.0s to see which is better. Furthermore, M1 images are beginning to come through.