Hi all,

I'm posting a log from ACP Analyzer for review. It was taken from last night's imaging session where the seeing was good for my location and winds relatively calm. I'm posting this for 3 reasons:

1) If you haven't use ACP Analyzer yet to see how well your setup is performing, you're missing a great analytical tool.

2) ACP performed flawlessly (as well as all my hardware).

3) This was a pretty good night in terms of results. There were no failures (autofocus, guiding, plate-solving, target-centering, etc.), slewing was very accurate, and the image FWHM and focus HFD were essentially identical - meaning guiding was very good.

I think it would be interesting to see some other logs for comparison. For instance, according to the log, my overall imaging efficiency was 87% I think that's pretty good, but I have nothing to compare it to.

Kudos to Bob (for ACP) and Russ (for ACP Analyzer)!

FWIW.

Jim

Code:
Report Summary
Total number of ACP logs parsed: 1
Total number of unique targets: 2
Total number of images taken: 55
Overall runtime breakdown:
  Runtime: 0d 10h 49m
  Imaging time: 0d 9h 10m
  Wait time: 0d 0h 13m
  Observatory overhead: 0d 1h 25m
  Imaging as % of runtime (ex waits): 87%
Average FWHM: 2.72 arcsecs
Average HFD: 2.82
  Total guider failures: 0
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Log: 20120228@000142.log
Start date: 2/28/2012 12:01:42 AM
Log runtime breakdown:
  Runtime: 0d 10h 49m
  Imaging time: 0d 9h 10m
  Wait time: 0d 0h 13m
  Observatory overhead: 0d 1h 25m
  Imaging as % of runtime (ex waits): 87%
Targets: 2
  Target name: hubble's variable nebula image
  Average FWHM: 3.02 arcsecs
  Average HFD: 3.05
  Average Pointing Error: 
    Object slews: 0.73 arcmins
    Center slews: 0.1 arcmins
  Successful auto-focus runs: 5
  Successful plate solves: 36
  Completed exposures: 25
  Guider failures: 0
  Total imaging time on target: 9h 10m 0s 
    8 x 600 secs red @ bin 1
    9 x 600 secs green @ bin 1
    8 x 600 secs blue @ bin 1
  Target name: sunflower galaxy m63
  Average FWHM: 2.42 arcsecs
  Average HFD: 2.58
  Average Pointing Error: 
    Object slews: 0.8 arcmins
    Center slews: 0.05 arcmins
  Successful auto-focus runs: 5
  Successful plate solves: 42
  Completed exposures: 30
  Guider failures: 0
  Total imaging time on target: 9h 10m 0s 
    15 x 600 secs red @ bin 1
    8 x 600 secs green @ bin 1
    7 x 600 secs blue @ bin 1
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