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CCD Images - Session 276 (2008-03-12)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet BL Lac - BL Lac type variable, Blazar
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- SS Cyg (dwarf nova)
- U Her (mira variables)
- BL Lac (blazar)
- SZ Her (variables)
- Barnards Star, 61 Cyg, Gliese 412, Gliese 1245, Groombridge 1830, Lalande 21185 (Nearby Stars)





- Morning Session (2.1hr).  
Temperature +0.5 to 0.0 deg C
- CCD operation of -25 degC 
(at 77% average cooling). 
- main objective was to acquire images of certain selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis, in particular U Her, SS Cyg, Barnards Star and 61 Cyg.

BL Lac - BL Lac type variable, Blazar

Light Curve for BL Lac 
showing magnitude variation -  Nov 2007 to March 2008
Dataset comprising observations from 32 nights between 2007-11-15 and 2008-03-12
Note 0.5 mag brightening between 2008-02-19 & 2008-02-24, which seems to have lasted for 4-7 days.
Image 
   
BL Lac - reference stars
(reference stars:  C2 and C12, check stars : K20,K25).   

Image

CCD Image 
3 x 120 sec exposure (median combine), 2x2 binning, R Filter
2006-11-26 20:24h UT (#155116-18)
[ more images and light curves of BL Lac ]

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