Category: Astronomy Report

Crew 238 Astronomy Report Jan 05 2022

Name: Agnieszka Pokrywka

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested: Montana Learning Center

Objects Viewed: M 101

Problems Encountered: The night before, I stayed up late to download between 2 am and 6 am the FITS files using Hab internet. It turned out to be not a very good idea: I was neither well-rested the next day, neither I managed to download all the needed files. If an astronomy laptop is not available I can use my own computer. In such a case: should I use for the download of the files the observatory internet? If so I would like to request access to it.

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Not used.

Astronomy Report

Name: Agnieszka Pokrywka
Crew: 238
Date: 01/04/2022

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: Montana Learning Center
Objects Viewed: M 51, IC 434
Problems Encountered: The first successful pictures of the Horsehead Nebula and Messier 51 are taken. There is a problem with the access to the astronomy laptop though. It wasn’t found downstairs in the hab. It might be in the observatory but I don’t have an access to it. The laptop is crucial to proceed with stacking of the images and color imaging.

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Not used.

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Astronomy Report

Name: Dylan Dilger
Crew: 236
Date: 12/29/2021

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one): Montana Learning Center

Objects Viewed: IC434 (Horsehead Nebula), M95, M96, NGC2244 (Rosette Nebula), M51, M42, M78, Almach
Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: None
Problems Encountered: None

Astronomy Report

Name: Dylan Dilger

Crew: 236
Date: 12/24/2021

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) Montana Learning Center

Objects Viewed: M35, IC434 (Horsehead Nebula), M95, M96, NGC2244 (Rosette Nebula)

Problems Encountered: Observatory live view showed clear skies when observation requests were submitted and about 1/4 cloudy skies confined to the horizon 2 hours later. Looking at the sample JPG of all observations shows no stars and no detail, so clouds likely interfered with all observations. On Skynet, it said the weather was good, but I don’t think it’s very all-encompassing or sensitive.

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: None

Problems Encountered: None

Crew 236 Astronomy Report 23 Dec 2021

Crew Astronomer:

Name: Dylan Dilger

Crew: 236

Date: 12/23/2021

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested: Montana Learning Center

Objects Viewed: None, but processed M37 images taken 2 days ago

Problems Encountered: The same steady wind that affected the Crab nebula images taken the same night elongated the stars

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: None

Problems Encountered: Still troubleshooting observatory dome controls, communicating with Astronomy Team about this.

Crew 236 Astronomy Report Dec 22 2021

Name: Dylan Dilger
Crew: 236
Date: 12/22/2021

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested: Montana Learning Center

Objects Viewed: NGC 2244 (Rosette Nebula), also enhanced the M1 crab nebula picture from yesterday now that Lum and Halpha data files have been downloaded. This picture is attached.

Problems Encountered: Is there any update on the MDRS observatory?

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: None

Problems Encountered: Still troubleshooting observatory dome controls, communicating with Astronomy Team about this.

Crew 223 Astronomy Report Mar 13 2020

Name: Florian Delpech

Crew: 223

Date: 3/13/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: N/A because of the bad weather

Images submitted with this report: 1 picture of the California nebula to celebrate our come back on Earth! It was a pleasure working with you, thanks a lot for this opportunity!

Problems Encountered: N/A

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

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Crew 223 Astronomy Report Mar 12 2020

Name: Florian Delpech

Crew: 223

Date: 3/12/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: NGC 4254 ; M100 ; NGC 6503 ;NGC 5248 ; NGC 4038 ; GC 3521. This is part of the research project

Images submitted with this report: 3 pictures of galaxies (NGC2403 ; NGC3344 and NGC 3368)

Problems Encountered: For some observations, one, two or three WCS registration failed. As a consequence, I cannot process the alignement of the pictures with AstroImageJ. Is there another way to align them?

I also don’t have credits anymore on my Skynet account. Would it be possible to have more in order to finish my research project?

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

Crew 223 Astronomy Report Mar 11 2020

Name: Florian Delpech

Crew: 223

Date: 3/11/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: NGC 1961, NGC 4490, NGC 3368, NGC 3115, NGC 2403, NGC 4618, NGC 4559, NGC 3521, NGC 4569, NGC 4725, NGC 3675. This is part of the research project.

Images submitted with this report: 1 picture of NGC 3031

Problems Encountered: N/A

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: Maybe a small sunspot or a large granule. I only could observe it a few seconds with the camera before clouds hide the sun so I don’t have image to submit.

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

Provenance : Courrier pour Windows 10

Crew 223 Astronomy Report Mar 10 2020

Name: Florian Delpech

Crew: 223

Date: 3/10/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: NGC 4621 ; NGC 2655 ; NGC 3032 ; NGC 3344 ; NGC 4450 ; NGC 2775 ; NGC 4449 ; NGC 4254 ; NGC 4125 ; NGC 3338 ; NGC 2683 ; NGC 6503 ; NGC 5248 ; NGC 4038 ; IC 342 ; M100. Let’s back to the research project aimed at tacking supernovae!

Images submitted with this report: 1 picture of the cluster M35 and 1 picture of the galaxie NGC 2403

Problems Encountered: N/A

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A