Raining year !

Today is my birthday, Rachel took a great photo of the obervatory through a water droplet:

 Couple of news from the observatory, with a very low number of observing nights since begining of december last year. Since january 1st, almost 1.3 meter of water felt on us! more than 400mm just for the month of May...

I have a new battery charger as the dome battery can go below 5V when not charged enough - I'm not sure the solar panel really work.

Otherwise, the installation works fairly well remotely. Unfortunatly the last months weather has not been very coorperative to me!

PRISM software workshop

On may 19th-21st 2018 took place a workshop on PRISM software, led by Cyril Cavadore (Alcor System, main programmer of the software) and Laurent Bernasconi. It happend at the Mars observatory, Mars beeing a small village in Ardèche, near Saint Etienne and Lyon in France.

It was a great opportunity for me to learn about some features in th software. We had also an intensive review of the automatic observation module.

On saturday night, some clear sky between clouds allowed us to view through the 24 inch telescope of the Mars observatory. I also observed some Be star with my telescope, remotely, showing how I usally work to few people interested there.

Expert group with Laurent

 24inch telescope

 Rémy at the 24inch telescope

 Jean-Louis observing through the 24inch telescope

 I had a qick view of the Moon through the 24inch Mars telescope

 24inch telescope inside its dome

 First group with Cyril

 Apéritif !

Mars observatory during the workshop

Jean-Louis ScopeDome

 Jean-Louis inside his ScopeDome

 Group picture (published by Cyril Cavadore)