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CCD Images - Session 580 (2015-02-20)

Objects Session Notes
Bullet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) - Comet
Bullet Abell 21 - Planetary Nebula (Medusa Nebula)
Bullet UGC 5295 - Spiral Galaxy
Bullet M61 - Spiral Galaxy
   
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
  FO And, IW And, RX And, U And, W And, FS Aur, KR Aur, CV CMi, SY Cnc, SS Cyg, U Gem, BL Lac, RZ LMi, SZ Lyn, CN Ori, CZ Ori, FO Ori, FU Ori, NV Ori, DY Per, GK Per, RR Tau, SU Tau, ER UMa
   
Bullet Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
  HH And, Groombridge 34, DX Cnc, CN Leo, Teegarden's Star
- Evening session (4.4 hrs duration).  
- Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer.  
- Ambient Temperature:  Temperature falling progressively to minimum of -3 degC before rising slightly to -2 deg C.
- CCD operation -30 degC (at 64% average cooling). 
- Main objectives of the session was to monitor selected variable stars & nearby stars and to take gallery images of a range of deep sky objects.  
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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) - Comet

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
(Passing through starfield in Perseus)
Sun distance 1.33 AU
 Image
CCD Image (Linear Scale, 70% size)
6 x 10 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2015-02-20 20:04hUT (#580020-26)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) - Detail
 Image
CCD Image (Square root scale, 70% size)
Image details as above
 
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) - Earlier Image, 2014-12-30
(Passing through starfield in Lepus)
Sun distance 1.37 AU
Image
CCD Image (Linear Scale, 50% size)
6 x 15 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2014-12-30 20:04hUT (#578114-19)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME

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Abell 21 - Planetary Nebula (Medusa Nebula)

Abell 21 / PLN 205+14.1 (Gemini)
Image
CCD Image Mosaic (75% size)
4 x 90 sec exposure, 3x3 binning, C Filter
2015-02-20 21:17hUT (#580139-43)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
  

Abell 21 - Earlier Image (2006)

Image

CCD Image
12 x 2 min exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2006-11-18 02:22h UT (#153222-33)
8" LX200 Classic + ST-7E

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UGC 5295 - Spiral Galaxy

UGC 5295 & adjacent galaxies (Virgo)
Image
Annotated CCD Image (75% size, cropped)
3 x 90 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2015-02-20 22:10hUT (#580208-10)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
UGC 5295 - detail
Image
CCD Image (Log Scale, 100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
UGC 5295 - wider view

Image

CCD Image (Linear scaling, 50% size)
Image details as above
  
UGC 5295 - earlier wide view (2014-12-31)

Image

CCD Image (Linear scaling, 50% size)
4 x 90 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2014-12-31 00:02hUT (#578324-28)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME

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M61 - Spiral Galaxy

M61 (Virgo)
Image
CCD Image (50% size)
90 sec exposure (single frame), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2015-02-21 00:04hUT (#580349)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
M61 - detail
Image
CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
M61 - earlier image (2011)

Image

CCD Image - Cropped, Linear scaling
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2011-03-07 23:35h UT (#464214-18)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

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Variable Stars

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