June 2019: a good month

June 2019 was the first month after several of bad weather and a broken Gemini I controler. After replacing it with the Gemini II, and also replacing the original Losmandy Titan mountmotors by stronger Maxxon ones, this month was the finetuning of the new version of the script taking into account those changes as well as a change in the guiding camera.

It is not working 100% yet but I have been abe to observe 20 nights during the month of june and acquire 65 spectra - not too bad considering the short nights during this month!

I have currently 48 spectra (1104 orders) pending validation in BeSS database... :-)

I hope july-september trimester will bring lot of clear nights and even more specrra with longuer nights coming. the season is nice for Be star spectra as Cygnus is rigin up in the evening now. And soon V442 And will be visible in the morning for me (I'll have to cut some trees to help!).

As weather is very very hot (the warmest with some record in France in june!), he pool is welcome as well.

reading before starting the semi-automated observing script

spectra waiting for validation in BeSS