Observatory Log: January 25, 2013 0
Nathan and I went out to the observatory tonight. The sky was clear when we opened the dome at 7:30 pm. The ambient temperature was around 4.1 F. We initialized the telescope and mounted the spectrograph assembly at 8:20 pm. The rest of the night was uneventful, since we could not align the star on the slit. We changed the focus, but it did not help much. I changed the alignment of the spectrograph. First the the camera was facing toward the cable outlet. Later, I oriented the spectrograph parallel to the fork. But nothing worked. We might be out of focus. Temperature dropped to -0.2 F when we called it a night at 9:30 pm.