13 February 2021 - 19 February 2021
Table of Contents
Perseverance Lands at Jezero Crater!
1. Santa Cruz Weather Station
Mast sensors still broken
2. EPICS
u3hv-scpi has analog voltage IO, and digital output. started u3hv-scpi unit test u3s Ruby code is rubocop clean
3. Brini Tracker II
Buttons still work after five weeks week of runtime. GPS display update seems to be intermittent as it is not working at this moment.
4. Gaia Data
Starting looking at the Gaia Catalog of Nearest Stars.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02061.pdf
Using a JRuby interface to IVOA Virtual Observatory
tables bundled with Gaia Sky (which itself may become a time sink)
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/
via Java libraries bundled with Topcat