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Session Notes

Photometric Monitoring - Variables - RX And, U And. W And, TTAri,  Z And, KR Aur, HR Aur, R CrB,  - CI Cyg, S Cyg, SS Cyg, AM Her, BL Lac, CY Lyr - RU Peg, DY Per, GK Per, KT Per, RR Tau Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - 61 Cyg

- Evening session (6.1 hr).  - Operated under semi-automated control with remote monitoring - Ambient Temperature  5.5 degC dropping to 2.5 degC before climbing back to 4.5 deg C by end of session - CCD operation -20 degC (at 56% average cooling).   - main objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  - remainder of session was spent testing realtime photometric monitoring using TrES-1 (GSC 2652:1324) in Lyr.