David's Astronomy Pages Images - Session 538 (2013-02-18)

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Objects	Session Notes
63P/Wild - Comet     M65 - Spiral Galaxy M66 - Spiral Galaxy   Photometric Monitoring - Variables - RX And, U And, W And, Z And, TT ARi, FS Aur, KR Aur, CV CMi, SY Cnc, U Gem, BL Lac, RZ LMi, CN Ori, CZ Ori, FO Ori, FU Ori, NV Ori, DY Per, GK Per, RR Tau, SU Tau     Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - DX Cnc, CN Leo, Teegardens Star	- Late Evening session (3.4 hrs duration) - Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer.   - Ambient Temperature: -1.5°C, (minimum)  - CCD operation -30°C (at 69% average cooling).   - main objectives of the session were to acquire images of selected project stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  -

63P/Wild - Comet

63P/Wild - 2013-02-18 (passing through Leo Minor) Sun Distance 2.01 AU

Annotated CCD Image (cropped) 4 x 30 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  2013-02-18 21:15hUT (#538164-68) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

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M65 - Spiral Galaxy

M65 (Leo)

CCD Image (50% size) 4 x 120sec exposure (average combine),  3x3 binning, C Filter 2013-02-18 22:00 h UT  (#538199-205) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

M65 - Earlier Image (2011)

CCD Image (50% size) 3 x 120sec exposure (average combine),  3x3 binning, C Filter 2011-02-26 23:55 h UT  (#458210-13) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

M65 - Earlier Image (2004)

CCD Image 4 x 120 second exposure (average combine), 2x2 binning 2004-02-20, 00:13 to 00:23 h UT (#58260-63) 8" LX200 classic + ST-7e

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M66 - Spiral Galaxy

M66 (Virgo)

CCD Image (Linear Scaling, 80% size, cropped) 6 x 90 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  2009-02-18 22:17 h UT  (#538207-15) 12" LX200R  (at f/5.6) + ST-10XME

M66 - earlier image (2009)

CCD Image (Linear Scaling, 60% size) 70 x 10 sec exposure (average median combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter  2009-03-22 00:10 h UT  (#358150-219) 12" LX200R  (at f/5.6) + ST-10XME

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