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CCD Images - Session 342 (2009-01-09)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet Moon
Bullet 144P/Kushida - Comet
Bullet NGC 2392 - Planetary Nebula ("Eskimo Nebula")
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
- FO And, RX And, Z And, TT Ari, SS Cyg, BL Lac
- RZ LMi, CZ Ori, NV Ori, RU Peg, DY Per, GK Per, RR Tau
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
- None
- Evening session (3.8 hrs)
- Ambient Temperature  2 deg C
- CCD operation -30 degC (at 93% average cooling).  
- main objective of the session was  to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. 
- opportunity taken to acquire images of a number of other objects

Moon

Moon (Phase 97%)

Image

CCD Image Mosaic (33% size reduction)
0.11s sec exposure, 1x1 binning, B Filter
Unsharp Masked
2009-01-09 19:53 h UT (#342053-68)
[Larger Image, 60% Size]

  

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144P/Kushida - Comet

144P/Kushida 
(passing through starfield in Virgo)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2009-01-09 21:59 h UT (#342167-69)

  

Earlier image of 144P/Kushida - 2009-01-02
(passing through starfield in Taurus)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2009-01-02 20:59 h UT (#337045-47)

  

Earlier image of 144P/Kushida - 2008-11-27
(passing through starfield in Aries)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2008-11-27 23:42 h UT (#326084-86)

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NGC 2392 - Planetary Nebula ("Eskimo Nebula")

NGC 2392 (Gemini)

Image

CCD Image (Linear Scale, 50% size reduction)
3 x 20s sec exposure (average combine), 1x1 binning, C Filter
2009-01-09 21:27 h UT (#342137-41)

  

NGC 2392 - detail

Image

Negative CCD Image (Square Root Scale, cropped)
Image details as above

     

NGC 2392 - Spectrograph

Image

CCD Image (Linear Scale)
3 x 45s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, S Filter
2009-01-09 21:32 h UT (#342143-45)

 

NGC 2392 - Spectrograph

Image

CCD Image (200% size enlargement)
3 x 45s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, S Filter
2009-01-09 21:32 h UT (#342143-45)

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Astrometric and Photometric Monitoring

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