Walter's LogBook
	March 2007

Overview

The scope continues to limp along this month, and I have to go through the images manually and weed out the trailed ones after an imaging session. I have made arrangements with Dr. Clay Sherrod of Arkansas Sky Observatories to refurbish the scope sometime in the next month or so.

The SXV-H9 is the imaging camera, with exposures for variable stars of 120 seconds at 4x4 binning (unguided). This month's session notes are below the overview section.

Monthly Statistics, March 2007
Night	Imaging Time (s)	Exposure Time (s)	# Targets	# Exposures	T (C)	/\T
2007-03-06	36714	29300	109	485	-8.2	-10.9
2007-03-08	35812	30120	58	251	-5.9	-10.5
2007-03-19	34954	27540	123	552	+0.5	-6.6
2007-03-21	31324	28080	68	329	-0.4	-9.1
2007-03-23	29149	23820	66	281	+12.7	-6.4
2007-03-24	33932	28920	61	256	10.4	-8.9
2007-03-28	17529	13860	50	208	+9.0	-7.8
2007-03-29	32905	26280	98	429	+5.0	-6.1
2007-03-30	28447	23580	66	294	+9.5	-7.1
2007-03-31	32457	26580	85	329	+10.6	-11.0
10 nights	313223 (87.01 hr)	258080 (71.69 hr)	784	3414

Session Notes

RA Tracking Problem

Here is how many images were lost to trailing in recent sessions:
Feb 26/27: 68/288 trailed (23.6%)
Feb 27/28: 78/285 (27.3%)
Feb 28/01: 54/219 (24.7%)
Mar 06/07: 51/485 (10.5%)
Mar 08/09: 62/251 (24.7%)
Mar 18/19: 62/552 (11.2%)
Mar 20/21: 63/335 (18.8%)
Mar 22/23: 66/281 (23.5%)
Mar 23/24: 64/262 (24.4%)
Mar 27/28: 33/214 (15.4%)
Mar 28/29: 59/435 (13.6%)
Mar 29/30: 50/294 (17.0%)

Sat/Sun March 31/April 1, 2007

This session was initiated remotely from Yarker, Ontario. I had left the dome open on Saturday morning and also left the lid off the scope. Using Windows Remote Desktop, I was able to run the show from away which was pretty cool! At the end of the session, I closed the dome since rain was forecast for Sunday afternoon.