I plan to set up at SPOC and give it a try -- but for it to work my first job there will be to retrain my drives so I can get into the right vicinity. When I replaced my nylon gears with stainless steel ones that changed the gearing enough to throw it off. Also, do you know if the Stansbury Park watering folks are going to do their thing tomorrow night? Thanks, Joe --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] In case anyone would like to help... To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 3:07 PM Hi Joe, On 09 Jul 2009, at 11:26, Joe Bauman wrote:

Patrick, What time in Utahn will it happen Friday night?

While we are on Daylight Silly Time you subtract 6 hours from UT. So the 11th between 0525 and 0737 UT works out to be 23:25 the night of the 10th to 01:37 the morning of the 11th here in Utah. And remember that you'll want to start imaging well before it's predicted to start and end well after it's predicted to end.  I typically start one hour before and go until one hour after. I'd suggest practicing ahead of time to make sure you can find the star and also to shoot a few test shots to get the exposure right (I typically shoot 15 or 30 second exposures).  And don't forget to shoot several darks and flats (I do 15 of each) once you have the camera attached and focused (using the same binning, focus, temperature, camera orientation and exposure length as the light shots) so you can turn them into the master dark and flat files you'll need to reduce the raw images. Let me know if you have any questions.  You're welcome to call tonight (I'll be up all night working an exo-planet).  435.882.1209. Thanks for your interest, patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com