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CCD Images - Session 337 (2009-01-02)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet 144P/Kushida - Comet
Bullet 116P/Wild - Comet
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- SS Cyg  (dwarf nova)
- U And, W And (mira)
- BL Lac (blazar)
- FO And, RX And, Eps Aur, Zet Aur, HR Aur, CI Cyg,
U Mon, RU Peg, DY Per, GK Per (variables)
- 61 Cyg, Grooombridge 34 (nearby stars)

Teegarden's Star, CN Ori, RR Tau  (failed due to poor transparency/cloud)
- Late evening session (4.9 hrs), operated under automated control
- Ambient Temperature  -4 degC, rising to -1 degC as cloud developed.
- CCD operation -30 degC (at 68% average cooling).  
- main objective of the session was  to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. 
- opportunity taken to acquire images of a mag +10 comet

144P/Kushida - Comet

144P/Kushida 
(passing through starfield in Taurus)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2009-01-02 20:59 h UT (#337045-47)

  

Images showing 1.1 arc min motion of 144P/Kushida over 
a period of 1 hr 40m (100 minutes)
Rate of motion : 0.66 arc min / hour

Image

CCD Image Animation (2 frames)
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
1) 2009-01-02 20:59 h UT (#337045-47)
2) 2009-01-02 22:39 h UT (#337123-25)

   

Earlier image of 144P/Kushida - 2008-11-27
(passing through starfield in Aries)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2008-11-27 23:42 h UT (#326084-86)

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116P/Wild - Comet

116P/Wild 
(passing through starfield in Leo)

Image

Annotated CCD Image 
3 x 120s sec exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
2009-01-02 23:05 h UT (#337141-43)

 

116P/Wild - detail

Image

Negative CCD Image (200%, cropped)
Image details as above

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Astrometric and Photometric Monitoring

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