Last night was the first night after the summer shutdown and despite the forecast we were open for most of the night! We’re using MIRAC as the PSF viewer and found the first star pretty fast!
We aligned the pupil, tested the rotational centering, tried the -300mm and -250mm lenses in front of the VisWFS and decided to go with the -250mm lens. Then we took mlats and then many iterations of CACAO testing. Rebooting RC3 and taking care of some of the over zealous logging seemed to help with issues of the CCID-75 seeming to pause or hang. The low is around 60deg F and the ASM sometimes gets close to overheating, so we take a short break and allow it to cool down. The night ended with a hot ASM at the first twilight.
The song of the night is “Peaches” by The Presidents of the United States of America: