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Objects Session Notes
Bullet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) - Comet
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
- RX And, U And, Z And,  CI Cyg, SS Cyg,
- SS Her, U Her, BL Lac, U Sge
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
- HH And (Ross 248), 61 Cyg
- Short night time session (1.4 hrs).
- Operated under automated control with remote control monitoring
- Ambient Temperature  initially 5 deg C, decreasing to 3 deg C.
- CCD operation -25 degC (at 64% average cooling).  
- main objective of the session was to test a new software routine for identifying the end of a LX200R slew operation, to ensure that the  scope has completed settled before imaging commences, without enduring unnecessary delays for short slew operations
- secondary 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 12 comet in Lacerta
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- Notes from 2009-06-07

C/2006 W3 (Christensen) - Comet

C/2006 W3 (Christensen)
passing through star field in Lacerta

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CCD Image (cropped)
6 x 10s sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2009-06-08 00:14 h UT (#372038-44)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

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