Nick,

I'm keeping an eye on the run and just saw that autofocus has failed
again. Could you please try adding #AUTOFOCUS directive at the beginning
of your plans to force the system to do autofocus per each filter
change? We'll make this option enabled by default in the plan creator to
avoid this pitfall. This is the first "force autofocus" toggle in the
user interface, or you can simply add the directive manually to the plan.

I see there's also "out of memory" error and the run was aborted. This
happens for some reason occasionally if 1x1 binning is selected. We have
plenty of disk space and RAM on the PC, so it must be some kind of a
Moravian driver error. I would encourage 2x2 binning - the 1x1 is really
way oversampled anyways and adds very little useful information.

Thanks!

Regards,
Maxim

On 7/23/23 06:42, Nick James wrote:
> Another image from the Alnitak CDK 17 here:
>
> https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230723_062749_9728e378f3730283
>
>
> I get a coma expansion velocity of around 160 m/s by comparison of two
> images taken 21 hours apart and the total magnitude is almost constant
> implying a single impulsive release of material into the coma. The
> teardrop shape is still prominent.
>
> Nick.
>
>
> On 22/07/2023 10:21, Nick James wrote:
>> We are currently evaluating a remote observatory in Spain for use by
>> BAA observers and I used this to get a high-resolution V-band image
>> (0.26 arcsec/pix) of the coma last night.
>>
>> This image was obtained using the 0.45-m f/6.6 CDK at the Alnitak
>> Observatory in Spain. It shows a tear-drop coma with a dark lane
>> around PA 10 deg. The total magnitude in an aperture of 26 arcsec was
>> 11.6.
>>
>> https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230722_091422_63610293e41f0496
>>
>>
>> Nick.
>>
>>
>> On 22/07/2023 00:25, Nick James wrote:
>>> I've just (July 21, 23:20 UTC) managed to image it through hazy
>>> cloud here at 970 and I get a total magnitude of 11.8 with a roughly
>>> circular coma of diameter 26 arcsec. The image FWHM is 2.5 arcsec.
>>>
>>> The image is here:
>>>
>>> https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230721_232012_f5b4a3cb5e9dfe31
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick.
>>>
>>
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