Astronomy Report, Sol 19
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 03/15/2019
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Closing procedures done
Problem encountered : None
ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Object observed : Various Messier objects
Problems encountered : Clouds on most of the images, low exposure for
other ones, I will use MDRS WF and 14 tonight.
Astronomy Report, Sol 15
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 03/11/2019
MUSK OBSERVARORY
Features observed : None
Problem encountered : I did two sessions of solar observation this
morning, no feature visible, even with the solar storm hitting us today.
ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Object observed : M45, the pleiades
Problems encountered : MaxImDL has severe bugs so I try to do image
processing with the other softwares, I plan various observations for
tonight to finish the plan I had for my mission. I attach the
astrophotography I did of M45.
Astronomy Report, Sol 11
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 03/07/2019
MUSK OBSERVARORY
Features observed : Sun spot
Problem encountered : Little sun spot observed but only 15 minutes of sun, so not enough time to take pictures.
ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Object observed : None
Problems encountered : I have been waiting for two days for my images of M45 to be taken by the telescope. I’ll my objectives tomorrow. [end]
Astronomy Report, Sol 5
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 03/01/2019
MUSK OBSERVARORY
Features observed : None
Problem encountered : Can you tell me if it is normal that no feature
can be focused these days ?
ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Object observed : M106
I did not attach the image I did from the observation because I did not
succeed to stack the images the right way to give a good final image.
I’ll continue to work on it.
Problems encountered : None
Astronomy Report, Sol 3
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 02/25/2019
ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Object observed : Orion Nebula, M42. I attach the image I did from the observation. I’m a beginner in astrophotography, I hope my pictures will be improved during the mission.
Problems encountered : I think I exposed to much the telecope, the center of the nebula is to bright.
Astronomy Report, Sol 1
Name: Aurélien Mure
Crew: 206
Date: 02/25/2019
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: None, tiny clouds let me show just the shape of the sun
Problems encountered : Problems with the automated sun tracker, solved.
Crew 205 Astronomy Report 18 Feb 2019
Crew Astronomer:Natalia Larrea
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: MDRS-WF
Objects Viewed:
No observations for MDRS Target 1 were captured using MDRS-14 last night due to cloudy weather. We are still waiting for the sky to clear to obtain further measurements.
This morning we submitted an additional observation request for Orion Nebula using MDRS-WF telescope. Observations were set at 3 sec exposure using RGB and Lum filters. Right Ascension correction for this object was set at -10 arcmin.
Problems Encountered: Bad weather conditions.
Crew Astronomer: Ghanim Alotaibi
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: MDRS-14
Objects Viewed: Last night 10 images were captured out of the requested 18 images for MDRS Target 1. The quality of the images is bad and one of the images looks shaky. Crew astronomer suggested to resubmit the observation and Observatory Director recommended the same due to some problems encountered, thus the observation was resubmitted.
New photometry measurement was performed for SY MON target. Based on the previous experience gained, the new measurement was found to be 14.132 with an error of 0.0185. The data point was submitted to the AAVSO website with the star 122 as a check star.
Problems Encountered: Mount Problems which caused shaky images. The moon was also bright, so bad images were captured. Observatory Director solved the problem.
Crew 205 Astronomy Report 15 Feb 2019
Crew Astronomer: Ghanim Alotaibi
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: No
Objects Viewed: No observational session was requested for tonight. I am waiting for a clear sky for the observations submitted in 13 Feb. We wanted to submit the SY MON photometry measurement to the AAVSO However, some errors were found. The CCD setting was not correct, and there are better options to select comparison stars.
As the new set up was inserted and new comparison stars were selected, the new measured value for the SY MON star was found to be 13.918. However, the magnitude value of the check star was unreasonable and was reported to observatory director.
The crew astronomer used another method to calculate the magnitude value for the target. He measured the instrumental magnitude directly from the software and performed the calculation manually. The magnitude value was found to be 14.118. The value was also reported to observatory director.
Problems Encountered: Nothing to mention
Crew 205 Astronomy Report 13 Feb 2019
Crew Astronomer: Ghanim Alotaibi
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: MDRS-14
Objects Viewed: Out of the 18 images requested last night, I found only 12 images were captured. However, all the captured images were found to be bad for photometry. The seeing condition was not good yesterday for astrophotography and it was decided to resubmit the observation session.
Problems Encountered: Bad weather conditions.
