Computer is back

Well everybody hope your added day to break is going well, just wanted to get the message out to everybody that our DOS computer has come in!! yay! Jack says it was working for him but i cannot get it working back at school. So i am going to email Jack over break to get some instructions on how to set it up and hopfully get it all together and working the week we get back. Also over break i will be ordering the com port card for the PC so when we do get everything up we dont have to decide if we want to use the back end or the motors =). Thats all for now noting much will be going on untill we get back from break so go over and take a look at our fourms at: gpratz.proboards105.com other than that this will continue to be updatd durring break as i hear from Jack and get parts in. So keep checking back, but for now that is all. Have a great Christmas and a Happy new year.

Christmas Party!

Well we had a great Christmas party! Thanks to everybody who brought food it was amazing. This years gift exchange was amazing!!! there were many great gifts and some great stealing going on. As always many story's were told. overall the party was a great success. thank you all for coming and hope to see you all next year.
Also to the current members there will be no meeting this Thursday due to Christmas. and hopefully when we get back we will be able to test everything one last time all together in the control room and take it up to the telescope ASAP. That's all for now thanks for a great party everybody!

New Equipment!! WOO!!

Our new parts have arrived!!!!!!! We now have all of our telescope parts working other than the DOS computer (jack still has it). Other than getting the DOS compute back we need another com port on the PC because the new back end uses one to interface with the computer. Once we get the com port card and computer back we can do one final test before we take it up on the roof. Also at the last meeting we got the noise source working AKA the calibration source. now once we get everything up on the roof and hooked up we will have a calibration source and a entirely working telescope! if we can figure everything out we will be able to control the whole telescope even the cal source from the control room.
Also the Christmas party will be at my (Bartos') house this year on Saturday December 20th 2008!! Next week is the sign up for bringing food to the party so don't miss the meeting next Thursday!