Junk Bond Observatory - Mini-Tour
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by blue collar scientistEarlier today I took some time out of my work schedule to record a little tour of the 0.8 meter telescope at Junk Bond Observatory, which is where I’m working for the next six days. This is totally ad-lib, with no script or outline, and it was all done with the iSight camera on my MacBook, so I apologize of the quality is not up to standards.
This is probably going to be a bit more accessible to astronomy types, so if you have questions or want to hear more about something, please leave a comment and let me know.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Could you please tell us why the observatory is named Junk Bond?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
can you put up some links to sample SCP code to illustrate what it looks like? what’s SCP written in? what kinds of feedback do you get from the telescope? for example, can you monitor amperage on the drive motors and help detect stalls with that? what are the motors like? do they step? how are they geared to the scope? do you have any diagrams of the drive train you can link? what does your calibration sequence each night look like? how often do you do recalibrations? when the scope is positioned for an image, is the control open-loop? or is there some kind of a test used to verify that the scope is in the proper field?
does the SCP script have any error handling logic?