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CCD Images - Session 386 (2009-08-24)

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Bullet M101 - Spiral Galaxy
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
- RX And, U And, W And, TT Ari, R CrB, CI Cyg, SS Cyg
- AM Her, U Her, CY Lyr, RU Peg,  FG Sge, U Sge, V Sge, ER UMa, SU UMa
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
- 61 Cyg, Groombridge 1618
 
- Night session (2.7 hr). Wind/Poor seeing..
- Operated in Observatory under manual and semi-automated control. Later operated under automated control with remote monitoing
- Ambient Temperature  varying between 11 and 12.5 deg 
- CCD operation -20 degC (at 78% average cooling).  
- main objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. 
- opportunity take to get a nice image of galaxy M101 at start of session

M101 - Spiral Galaxy 

M101 (Ursa Major)  
Image
CCD Image (75% size) 
9 x 60 sec (average combine),  3x3 binning, C Filter
2009-08-24 22:00 h UT  (#386001-10)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

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