328-AstronomyReport

Astronomy Report

03/28/2015

Mohammad Iranmanesh

Sky Conditions:

Clear

Wind Conditions:

Calm

Observation Start Time:

23:30

Observation End Time:

01:15

Summary:

Visual astronomy

We set the telescope to its last alignment. Which was successful.

Objects Viewed:

Moon

Jupiter

Castor

Pollux

Capella

Procyon

Betelgeuse

M31

M8

M1

Problems Encountered:

At some point we lost focus when we were changing eyepieces and pushed longer than usual on the Robofocus buttons. The robofocus mecanism stopped rotating. We could not get in to unfocus again untill we followed the closing procedure for the telescope, turned it off and turned it ON again. It worked again well after that procedure.