LUNASCAN MISSION REPORT:
Session
# 20160415 – 01 - 95
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Mission 95 began at 19:32 hours and went very well until EOM (end of mission) at 21:02. The only problem encountered was the WWV signal from Fort Collins has not been coming in for weeks, except intermittently on 10 & 15 Mhz, and was not available for this mission. Aircraft and some short wave jabber was used to help time-date the proceedings and the Quad time had been set to close to accurate time before the mission. Duration: 1h30m. Targets of interest were the Apennines and Ptolemaeus/Alphonsus, etc.
2. EPHEMERIS:
Ephemeris: DE421
Observatory: Geocentric
Date: 2016-04-15 21:00:00
Date (TT): 2016-04-15 21:01:10
(J2000) Right Ascension:
09h11m02.55s
(J2000) Declination: +13°06'54.3"
(Date) Right Ascension:
09h11m56.14s
(Date) Declination: +13°02'44.3"
Distance: 393688Km
Apparent diameter: 30.35'
Colongitude: 13.5°
Phase: 69.9°
Lunation: 8.40 days
Illumination: 67.2%
Sub-solar latitude: -0.9°
Libration in Latitude: +03°51'
Libration in Longitude: +06°39'
Position angle: 18.4°
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3. DETAILED ANALYSIS/NOTES:
Audio out on Q
BOS 19:31:59 (7:32 PM)
16:18 LOS (audio)
Note: If WWV is not working - need to unplug so AC can get
time fix trans
33:11 black screen / switch to spanish trans
34:19 Target back on
43:35 bird
1:19:00 AC trans fix
1:22:50 AC trans "arrival" = 20:55:35 Q
1:30 EOM
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4. EQUIPMENT MODE LEVEL
RECORDERS
VHS1 on
VHS2 on
VHS3 on
VHS 4 on LIMA 2 Skycam
(B Cam on
DVR1 on
DVR2 on
QUAD CAMERA POSITIONS:
All camera outputs to Quad SAMSUNG SCQ-041P
Camera 1 B-Cam - (SC-NVA5), wide angle
& A-Cam (SC-NVA5) 9x50 #51611 Celestron
finder w/crosshairs)
Y=video
R=power
Camera 2 CabCam
cam 1 (color, SC-NVA5 to Quad), cam 2 (Sony CL-34S-2T,
night vision, security, to Lab via
RG59)
Camera 3 VMA graphics/LPI not used
Camera 4: SSI/C-8. .
COMPUTERS:
PC1 System
Dell Intel Pentium 4 processor
2 Gigahertz, 256 meg
C Drive, 40 GB
D Drive, 111 GB
Digital to Analog Converter 2: TEP-100 Elite Pro II
Aperture video recorder DVR2
No graphics used
Feeding Quad Cam Position
4
PC2 System
VIRTUAL MOON ATLAS graphics
Feeding Quad Cam Position 3
PC3 System
CAMERAS:
Camera 1
Celestron Neximage Solar System Imager
SSI or A camera = 2032/5=400x
No Barlow or focal reducer used
delivers simrange of 600 mi
and FOV of 400 miles
CCD sensor (Charge Coupled Device)
Type HAD (1/4")
OPTICS, prime focus 5 mm
Active area 3.6mm x 2.7 (4.5 mm diagonal)
Pixel size 5.6 micron, square
VGA resolution (640x480) color ¼” CCD chip
Maximum usable framerate @
640x480
(uncompressed): 30 fps
#11 yellow written filter
Compression 1420
?-Bit on-chip A/D converter
3 MP
Sensitivity <1 lux
ACOMP Computer
Camera 2
LPI (NOT UTILIZED THIS MISSION)
LPI or B camera = 2032/6=340x
Meade Lunar Planetary Imager
Type HV7131E1 (1/3")
OPTICS, prime focus. 6 mm.
Active area 5.18x3.90 mm (6.5 mm diagonal)
Pixel size 8.0 micron, square
VGA resolution (640x480) color
Max usable framerate @
640x480
(uncompressed): 36 fps
Compression 1420
8-Bit on-chip A/D converter
1.3 MP
Sensitivity <?lux
BCOMP Computer
Compaq Presario sr1218nx XP Home
2.67 GHZ processor, 760 mb
C Drive 80 GB hard drive
OPTICAL TUBE:
Celestron C-8 SCT 8” optical
tube
2032 mm f/l
F10
Resolution at lunar range = 0.68 /
.81086 mi or 4281.36469 feet
(30.19' X 60 = 1811.4" /.68' resol
= factor of 2663.82353
2160 miles / 2663.82353 = .81086 mi resolution)0.621 mi/km
1 m = 3.28 ‘
CONFIG:
(X) SSI in scope
back
( ) Diagonal and ( ) binoc viewer. Extended hand
control DOB Driver II