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Bullet Quasar PC 1247+340 - Attempted Observation
Bullet SV CMi - Variable star
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- U Gem, (dwarf novae)
- HIP 4429 (suspected variable)
- U And, W And (Mira variables)
- Z And, RZ LMi, U Mon (variables)
- KR Aur, SY Cnc, RR Tau (variables)
- NGC 4151, NGC 2782 (Seyfert galaxies)
- Lalande 21185, Gliese 412, Wolf 359, DX Cnc  (Nearby Stars)
- 4.0 hr session. High cloud developing towards end of session.
- CCD operation of -25 degC (at 76% average cooling). .
- main objective was to acquire images for ongoing photometric and astrometric monitoring of the selected stars
- secondary objective was to record a baseline image of the star-field surrounding Quasar PC 1247+340, presented as a Deep Sky challenge in April 2007 edition of Astronomy Now
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Quasar PC 1247+340 - Attempted Observation

Star-field around Quasar PC 1247+340 (Canes Venatici)
Quasar PC 1247+340 (redshift 4.897) discovered in 1991 
was for a while the most distant object known. 
At magnitude +20.4 the quasar is too dim to have been captured in 
this 15x3 min exposure (extreme mag limit ~+18.9). 

Image 

CCD Image 
5 x 180s exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C filter,  
2007-03-22  21:53h UT (#185109-13)

  

Star-field around Quasar PC 1247+340 - detail

Magnitudes estimates of adjacent stars  are shown, 
based on a Plate Solution on 10 UCAC2 stars.
Catalog position of the Quasar is shown by the black circle.

 Image

Annotated Negative CCD Image (200% size)
5 x 180s exposure (sum combine), 2x2 binning, C filter,  
Cropped
2007-03-22  21:53h UT (#185109-13)

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SV CMi - Variable star  (Active UGZ)

SV CMi (Canis Minor)
An active UGZ star (Z Cam type variable) . Period 0.156 days

Image 

Annotated CCD Image 
2 x 60s exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C filter,  
2007-03-22  21:53h UT (#185144-46)
 
SV CMi - reference stars

Image 

Annotated CCD Image 
120s exposure, 2x2 binning, V filter,  
2007-03-22  21:53h UT (#185147)

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Astrometric and Photometric Monitoring

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