Objects

Session Notes

Jupiter & moons C/2006 W3 (Christensen) - Comet Photometric Monitoring - Variables - RX And, U And, W And, Z And, TT Ari, R CrB, SS Cyg - AM Her, U Her, BL Lac, DY Per, GK Per,  U Sge -CY Lyr attempt (no measurements) - U And,   CI Cyg, FG Sge, V Sge attempts (failed due to poor seeing - RU Peg attempt (failed due to cloud Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - Barnards Star, Groombridge 34, Ross 248 (HH And), EV Lac

- Night session (4.6 hr). Wind/Poor seeing.. - Operated in Observatory under manual and semi-automated control. Later operated under automated control with remote monitoing - Ambient Temperature  10 deg C (minimum), rising to 11 deg. - CCD operation -20 degC (at 74% average cooling).   - main objective of the session was to perform a re-collimation of the LX200R scope and test new software routines - secondary objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  - a number of other objects imaged were successfully imaged:  Jupiter, C/2006 W3 - attemots -failed imagesecondary objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  - a number of other objects were successfully imaged  Jupiter, C/2006 W3 - a number of other objects were unsuccessfully imaged:  M57, IC 1525 (failed due to excessive wind shake).  IC10 (failed due to cloud/poor sky transparency)