Hello all,

Larry Reddell and his team have finished lubricating the slit drive chain. I’ll be resuming the scheduler for tonight, so fingers crossed on the slit properly closing tomorrow morning!

-Maxx

Good afternoon all,
I’ve chosen to start modernizing and updating the website, clearing out broken links and streamlining the observing tools. Hopefully you’ll find it easier to read and navigate the website!
I’m also working on posting weekly posts here so that the “dynamic status” of the RCT is archived through these posts.
Cheers,
Maxx

There is a bug in the RCT scripts that occurs when parsing names with white spaces from the JPL Horizons ephemeris service. I’m still working on robust solutions. You may try putting quotes around your object names, like “C/2011 L1”. But I recommend looking up targets on http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi to generate a Object Data Page, and using either the Record Number (indicated by Rec #: xxxxx in the east jump upper left hand corner) or the MB number (in the upper right hand corner) as the object name in the IsPlanet key on the RCT Observing Scheduler.