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CCD Images - Session 430 (2010-10-06)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet 103P/Hartley - Comet
Bullet M76 - Planetary Nebula (Little Dumbbell)
Bullet M33 - Spiral Galaxy (Pinwheel Galaxy)
Bullet Variable Stars
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
- RX And, U And, W And, Z And, R CrB, CI Cyg, S Cyg, SS Cyg, AM Her, U Her, BL Lac, CY Lyr, TZ Lyr,   FG Sge, U Sge, V Sge, WZ Sge
Bullet Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
- Teegardens Star
 
- Late evening  session (4.8 hrs),
- Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer. 
- Ambient Temperature: 7 deg C  (minimum)
- CCD operation -20 degC (at 66% average cooling).  
- main objectives of the session was to acquire images of selected project stars for ongoing photometric analysis. and to acquire several Star Spectra
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103P/Hartley - Comet

Comet  103P/Hartley 
passing through starfield in Cassiopeia 

Image
Annotated CCD Image (cropped)
5  x 30s exposure (aligned on comet, average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2010-10-06 20:25 hUT (#430003-07)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

  

Comet  103P/Hartley - previous image (2010-09-26)

Image
Annotated CCD Image (cropped)
5  x 30s exposure (aligned on comet, average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2010-09-26 21:17 hUT (#429005-09)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

  

Comet  103P/Hartley - earlier image (2010-08-20)

Image
Annotated CCD Image (cropped)
5  x 30s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2010-08-20 21:32 hUT (#423018-22)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

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M76 - Planetary Nebula (Little Dumbbell)

M76 (Perseus)
Image
CCD Image (square root scale, 60% size) 
3 x 3 min (average combine),  3x3 binning, C Filter
2010-10-07 00:33hUT (#430329-31)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME
 
M76 - detail 
Image
CCD Image (log scale, 100% size, cropped) 
Image details as above

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M33 - Spiral Galaxy (Pinwheel Galaxy) - 3.0 mly

M33 (Triangulum),
 showing IC137 region at centre of image

Image
CCD Image (Linear Brightness Scale, 75% size)
3 x 180s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2010-10-07 00:51hUT (#430334-36)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME
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Earlier Image of M33 - showing named HII regions

Image

Annotated CCD Image Mosaic (75% size)
3 min exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning, C Filter
Rotated & Cropped
2006-11-16 22:24 h UT (#152233-45) 
8" LX200 classic + ST-7e

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Variable Stars

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