24.08.2022 60MT etalon imaging trials continue.

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Wednesday 24th I have been experimenting with the long, overhanging tube. To support the camera in various directions via cord suspended from a length of studding. I am still trying to even out the brightness across the image frame. Not with the greatest of success so far. The seeing conditions are the worst I have seen. With violent shaking, defocusing and general softness.

 78F/83F. The temperature in the dome is 83F. I am sitting here in my shorts. Hoping to let the light breeze cool my torse. I am drinking water at intervals.

16.27 Best image today. Magnetic bristles are beginning to show themselves in the processed image. Very dark on the left.

16.43 84F/29C in the dome. Slightly different processing.

16.56 84F/29C Taking a break to cool down indoors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.44 I'm back! Still 84F in the dome. Seeing still soft and shaky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 18.23 Seeing slightly improved.

 

 

 

 

 18.37 74F in the dome. Much more comfortable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 18.42 The waving trees intervened briefly.

Last image today.

Much more even brightness across the image.

 

 

 

 

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