David's Astronomy Pages
Images - Session 617 (2018-08-07)

Objects Session Notes
Bullet Hickson 8 - Galaxy Cluster (PGC 2886 et al)
Bullet LBN 534 - Gas Cloud
Bullet Minkowski 1-79 - Planetary Nebula (PLN 93-2.1)
   
Bullet NGC 7008 - Planetary Nebula
   
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
    - None
   
Bullet Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
    - None
    
   
- Late Night Session (1.4 hrs duration).
Clear skies, low wind
- Session conducted as a Fully Automated Run, in which the Observatory Control Program opened the  Observatory,  built and executed an optimised Observing Plan before finally closing the Observatory at the end of the night (Session was monitored for the first 10 minutes to ensure that it had kicked off okay)
- Main aim of the session was to test a newly consolidated autofocusing routine in manual mode before the main automated run was commenced. Secondary aims was to acquire images of a selection of deep sky targets and perform further testing of fully automated observatory operations.
- 12" LX200 + ST-10XME for imaging
- Ambient Temperature:  8°C (minimum)
- CCD Temperature:  -15°C (87% av. power)
- Notes from 2018-08-07 >>
    

Hickson 8 - Galaxy Cluster (PGC 2886 et al)

Hickson 8 (Andromeda) 
Image
CCD Image (75% size, cropped)
2 x 180 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-08-08 02:09 UT (#617046-49)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Image
Negative CCD Image (Linear Scaled, 100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
Image
CCD Image (Linear Scaled, 100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
Hickson 8 - Earlier Image (2018)
Image
CCD Image (Linear Scaled, 100% size, cropped)
3 x 90 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-07-26 00:42 UT (#616138-40)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
 
Hickson 8 - Earlier Image (2014)
PGC 2886(catalog mag +15.1), PGC 2890(catalog mag +16.1)
PGC 2892 (catalog mag +16.2), PGC 2888 (catalog mag +16.3) 
also PGC 1689970 (catalog mag +17.0), PGC 1690311 (catalog mag  +17.5)
Image
Annotated CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
4 x 30s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2014-11-23 22:58hUT (#571230-35)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Image
Negative CCD Image (cropped)
Image details as above (2014)

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LBN 534 - Gas Cloud

Part of LBN 534 (Andromeda)
Bright star (mag +8.3) is HD 222106
Image
CCD Image (50% size)
2 x 180 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-08-08 01:38 UT (#617036-38)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Part of LBN 534 - False Colour
Image
False Colour CCD Image (50% size)
Simple Colourization of monochrome Image
Image details as above

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Minkowski 1-79 - Planetary Nebula (PLN 93-2.1)

Astronomy Now Deep Sky Challenge target (August 2018)

Minkowski 1-79 / PLN 93-2.1 (Cygnus)
Image
CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
7 x 30 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-08-08 01:21 UT (#617019-25)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Minkowski 1-79 / PLN 93-2.1 - Detail
Image
CCD Image (250% size, cropped)
Image details as above

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NGC 7008 - Planetary Nebula

NGC 7008 (Cygnus)
Image
CCD Image (50% size)
5 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-08-08 00:56 UT (#617003-07)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Image
CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
NGC 7008 - Detail (3x3 binning)
Image
CCD Image (218% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
NGC 7008 - Detail (2x2 binning)
(accidentally acquired as quarter-frames at 2x2 binning
rather then half-frames at 2x2 binning)
Image
CCD Image (145% size)
2 x 120 sec exposure (average combine),
2x2 binning (Quarter frames), C Filter
2018-08-08 01:13 UT (#617013-16)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
Image
CCD Image (145% size)
4 x 60 sec exposure (average combine),
2x2 binning (Quarter frames), V Filter
2018-08-08 01:13 UT (#617013-16)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
 
NGC 7008 - Earlier Image (2006)
Image
CCD Image
120 sec exposure (single frame), 2x2 binning , C Filter
2006-09-04 22:03 h UT (#138063)
8" LX200 + ST-7E

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