David's Astronomy Pages Images - Session 529 (2012-11-30)

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C/2012 K5 (LINEAR) - Comet 168P/Hergenrother - Comet     Photometric Monitoring - Variables - R CrB, CY Cyg, SS Cyg, U Her, DY Per, GK Per Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - None   - 61 Cyg attempt failed (due to poor visibility)

- Late Evening session (1.5 hrs duration). Wind effected. - Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer.   (Power-Line networking) - Ambient Temperature: -1.0°C (minimum) - CCD operation -30°C (at 66% average cooling).   - main objectives of the session were to perform further software testing and to acquire images of selected project stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. -

Comet C/2012 K5 (LINEAR)

C/2012 K5 (LINEAR) - 2012-11-30 (moving through starfield in Canes Venatici)
Annotated CCD Image (50% size) 5  x 60s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  2012-11-30 17:45 hUT (#529017-21) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME		False Colour CCD Image / Inverse Spectrum (100% size, square root scaling, cropped) Image details as left

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Comet 168P/Hergenrother

168P/Hergenrother  - 2012-11-30 (moving through starfield in Andromeda, Sun Distance : 1.56 AU  barely visible,  marked by white cross-hairs (catalog mag +17)
CCD Image (50% size) 8 x 15s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  2012-11-30 18:21hUT (#529068-76.) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME
Animation showing motion of comet 168P/Hergenrother over a 5 hour period (moving through starfield in Andromeda)
CCD Image (cropped) 7 x 30s (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  Frame 1:  2012-11-02 19:16 hUT (#520044-50) Frame 2:  2012-11-03 00:32 hUT (#520503-09) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

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