We may have located a significant bug in the control software: A command was being sent during slewing, which is not allowed. It was sent due to some timeouts in the software.
Bug was found by Ingemar Lundström after some information from Howard Hedlund of Astro-Physics in Illinois.
Multiple meridian flips were tested after fixing the software – both from Engineering Mode and from scripts. No problems.
It is still an issue that Kill Switches should not be reached – we fear that some loss of calibration takes place then too, although the amount of de-calibration may not be total.
Red symbols show the results for the standard method (i.e. linear regression), blue is for the log-method. Crosses show the results at 4/5ths from disc center and boxes show for 2/3rds from disc centre.We see that results with errors below 10% are available for only about 5 days. We see that the log-method is somewhat better than the linear method, and that best results are found close to the rim.We also see an asymmetry – as thelunar phase passed Half Moon the enalysis switched to the other side of the lunar disc. Apparently a 50% improvement in the derived intensity can be had by using the log-intensity method, but mainly on one side of the Moon. The reason is unclear. As images were generated ideally – i.e. without libration and without distance variations a fixed coordinate for the patches in which the corrected intensity was evaluated always accesses the same pixels in the synethtic image – except when we switch to the other side of the disc after New Moon.