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Session Notes

Photometric Monitoring - Variables - SS Cyg, SS Her, U Her Photometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars -

- Very Short session (0.9 hr). Sky rapidly clouded over. - Operated in Observatory under semi-automated control  - Ambient Temperature  12.5 deg C, warming to 14 deg as cloud cover came in. - CCD operation -20 degC (at 80% average cooling).   - main objective of the session was to test some new software routines - secondary objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.