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Bullet 4/P Faye - Comet
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- SS Cyg (dwarf novae)
- HIP 4429 (suspected variable)
- BL Lac (BL Lac blazer)
- 2.0 hr session cut short by deteriorating sky conditions
- CCD operation of -25 degC (at 71% average cooling). .
- the other main objective was to acquire images for photometric monitoring of the variables stars U And, W And, SS Cyg and a suspected variable HIP 4429.
- attempts were made to record follow-up images to two recent supernova, but sky conditions were unfavourable.
- opportunity taken to acquire images of comet 4/P Faye, with an image attempt on comet 181/P Shoemaker-Levy
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4/P Faye - Comet

Comet 4P/Faye 
(passing through starfield in Taurus)

Image 

CCD Image 
3 x 120s exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C filter,  
Linear scale
2007-02-03 19:57h UT (#173051-53)

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