Kitt Peak Update: Day One(Data Collection)

2014-05-27 22.49.52After being instructed by Marc Buie and Red Sumner on how to correctly collect the data, we started to do it on our own!

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This computer screen allows us to see when the exposure time has ended and put  in the right object name and exposure time so we can collect more data. On a screen above the one in the picture is where the information to write down the Start Time, Air mass, Right Ascension, Declination, and HA is.

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After a few explanations and a couple of tries we learned pretty quickly how to write down the information for each object and enter the needed information into the computer!

Lake Shank & Shelby Brown

 

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