It will be clear out tonight but the observatory will be closed

We will be doing t point modeling for the mount tonight and put in a new star model in the Gemini mount as well. This setup is much more refined than setups we've had in the past at the Hector J Robinson observatory.

The Gemini model can be altered and more stars can be added during other sessions. This allows us to setup the mount and make alterations later if we have visitors. But the t point model has to go in during the single observing session. You can't modify it later, you have to do it all in one session. The more objects we add the better the model and more accurate the scope will aim and track. We have a really good aligned mount now, so we will focus on the t point model tonight.

It's going to be a very busy day for me tomorrow, so I won't have time to setup telescopes outside for visitors. So basically the observatory is closed to visitors tonight.

I'm showing a photo of the sky today. It's not an astrophotograph of course, but just a photo of the cloud cover at this time.

The nice thing about this setup once we are finished with it will be the ability to take much better astrophotographs with the Gemini mount. It would be nice to get a photo of the more recent comet visitor that is below cassiopia at this time. It's getting close to the double cluster if I recall the positional movements correctly.




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