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Originally Posted by Aussie Pete
Hi G13 testers 
Well its gone pretty well so far, though Houghy has not logged on yet. So G13 is still in one piece at this stage
Firstly i'd like to make a correction and an apology. I wrongly assumed that the developers would have a FITs file for users to access, I was wrong.
They designed the G13 system to deliver the simple and economic JPEG format instead. No FITs files or FTP folders for the tests. Sorry guys. But if your a non-astronomer I still think the you'd would be happy with the snaps.
Some of the targets will need to be edited we feel, as the scales are all over the place. Many targets are too small. I have asked the IT guys to increase the image size a little as well. Or are we just spoilt?
We also upped the exposure times from 300 to 600 seconds in order to get a little more colour and depth.
Thanks to all of you for the great feedback so far, and i hope you get a few more shots in. Save a shot or two for a futire comet or nova xcross fingers..
I'd just like to say that although it would be a pleasure to take on testers as full members, that was NOT the intention here at all. We really needed a bunch of old hands to log onto the scope and give it a good wringing out that first night or two. And you did that very well with over 36 IIS'ers going at it during the first night. Thanks.
Cheers ...Pete |
Hey i did log on -although it wasnt as straight forward as i thought I decided to do what most normal people would do - and not read the instructions.
the point and click scripts were good - but very limiting. Looked for some regular bright objects that are up (apart from eta) and would have liked m20 et al to select but that were not available. so I took these.
Disliked the booking system and the fact you cant stack shots - but i suppose that was built into the test
