David's Astronomy Pages
Images - Session 629 (2018-09-14)

Objects Session Notes
Bullet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Comet
Bullet 37P/Forbes - Comet
   
Bullet Hickson 76 - Galaxy Group (NGC 5944 et al)
   
Bullet NGC 5322 - Elliptical Galaxy (Herschel I-256)
   
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
    - RX And, U And, CI Cyg, U Her, BL Lac, CY Lyr,
DY Per, GK Per, FG Sge, V Sge, RR Tau
 
   
Bullet Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
  - 61 Cyg, Groombridge 34, EV Lac, Teegardens Star
    
Bullet SharpCap Files (S629)
   
- Night Session (6.9 hours duration) .
Clear skies for entire night
- Main aim of the session was to take images of Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner and selection of other targets (variable stars, nearby stars and deep sky objects).  Secondary aims were to test a new routine for measuring the Half Flux Diameter (HFD) of a star.
- Session was mainly conducted as a fully Automated operation, but dropping to Manual Mode for imaging Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner  (Session was largely monitored remotely from indoors to observe the operations and spot any new or recurrent issues)
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- 12" LX200 + ST-10XME for imaging
- TS 80mm APO + ZWO ASI178MC for guiding & imaging
- Ambient Temperature:  4°C (minimum)  (9°C sky flats)
- CCD Temperature:  -20°C (76% av. power) Images
CCD Temperature:  -15°C (59% av. power) Sky Flats
- Notes from 2018-09-14 >>
    

21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Comet

21P/Giacobini-Zinner (passing through Gemini)
Sun Distance 1.02 AU
Earth Distance 0.40 AU (59.1 million km)
Image
CCD Image (50% size, linear scale)
30 sec exposure (single frame), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 01:18 UT (#629521)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
[ Full Size Image ]

 
21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Detail
Image
CCD Image (50% size, log scale)
Image details as above
[ Full Size Image ]
 
Image
False Colour CCD Image (50% size, log scale)
Inverse Spectrum
Image details as above
 
21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Animated Image
showing 3.28 arc min movement of comet over a 41 minute interval
(i.e. movement of 4.8 arc min/hour or 1.92 arc deg/day)
Image 
Animated CCD Image (100% size, linear scale, cropped)
40 x 30 sec frames, 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 01:18 to 02:00 UT (#629521-80)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided on star using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
  21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Other Images
Image 
Composite CCD Image (50% size, logscale)
14 x 15 sec exposure (aligned on comet, average combine)
3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 02:35 to 02:42 UT (#629621-35)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided on star using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
[ Full Size Image ]
  
Image
False Colour CCD Image (50% size, log scale)
Inverse Spectrum
Image details as above
 
Image 
Composite CCD Image (72% size, log scale)
40 x 30 sec exposure (aligned on comet, average combine)
3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 01:18 to 02:00 UT (#629521-80)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided on star using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
[ Full Size Image ]
 
  21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Rotational Gradient Processing
15 deg rotational shift
(Processing performed in IRIS 5.59)
Image 
Processed CCD Image (50% size, rotational gradient)
5 x 30 sec exposure (aligned on comet, average combine)
3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 01:20 UT (#629621-25)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided on star using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
  
Image 
Processed CCD Image (100% size, rotational gradient, cropped)
Image details as above
  
Image 
Approximate Colour CCD Image (50% size, linear scale)
Luminance : 8 x 15s sec exposure (av. combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
Red : 8 x 20s sec exposure (av. combine), 3x3 binning, R Filter
Green : 9 x 20s sec exposure (av. combine), 3x3 binning, V Filter
Blue : 8 x 30s sec exposure (av. combine), 3x3 binning, B Filter
2018-09-15 02:05 to 02:30 UT (#629581-613)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided on comet using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
  21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Wider View through TS 80mm APO scope
Image 
Colour CMOS Image (16% size)
12 x 10s (Live Stack Combine) 1x1 binning, Gain 400
Total Exposure 120s
2018-09-15 02:58 UT (#02_58_53Z)
TS 80mm f/6 APO + ASI178MC (OSC)
Mounted on 12" LX200R
[ Larger Image , 29% size ]
 
Image
Colour CMOS Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
  21P/Giacobini-Zinner - Wider View
21P/Giacobini-Zinner at top of image,
M35 Open Cluster at bottom of image
(Picture is from just a single frame and quite faint)
Image 
Colour CMOS Image (16% size)
10s (Single Frame) 1x1 binning, Gain 400
2018-09-15 03:09 UT (#03_09_48Z)
TS 80mm f/6 APO + ASI178MC (OSC)
Mounted on 12" LX200R
 

21P/Giacobini-Zinner  - Earlier Image (May 2018)
(passing through Vulpecula)
Sun Distance 1.81 AU
Comet is marked by white cross hairs

Image

CCD Image (50% size)
4 x 30s sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-05-18  01:45 h UT (#611179-83)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME
 

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37P/Forbes - Comet

37P/Forbes (passing through star-field in Pisces)
Sun Distance 2.05 AU
Comet is marked by white cross hairs. Two faint galaxies in the image are
PGC 85401 (catalog mag +16.8) & PGC 70646 (catalog mag +16.7)
 Image
Annotated CCD Image (50% size)
3 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-15 00:12 UT (#629498-500)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
[ Full Size Image ]
 
37P/Forbes - Detail
Image
Annotated CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
37P/Forbes - Earlier Image (2018-09-08)
Sun Distance 2.02 AU
Image
Annotated CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
5 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-08 22:33 UT (#627002-06)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
 
37P/Forbes - Earlier Image (2018-08-31)
Sun Distance 1.98 AU
Image
Annotated CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
5 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-08-31 23:09 UT (#623111-15)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
 
Image
Negative CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above (2018-08-31)

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Hickson 76 - Galaxy Group (NGC 5944 et al)

Hickson 76 (Serpens)
Image
CCD Image (50% size)
4 x 180 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-14 20:07 UT (#629323-26)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
 
Hickson 76 - detail
a) NGC 5944 (catalog mag +15.9), b) NGC 5941 (catalog mag +13.9)
c) NGC 5942 (catalog mag +14.3),  d)  PGC 55316 (catalog mag +--)
e) PGC 55325 (catalog mag +17.2),  f) 76F (catalog mag +--)
G) PGC 55307 (catalog mag +17.5)
Image
Annotated CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above
 
Image
Negative CCD Image (100% size, cropped)
Image details as above

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NGC 5322 - Elliptical Galaxy (Herschel I-256)

NGC 5322 / Herschel I-256 (Ursa Major)
Image
CCD Image (50% size, linear scale)
3 x 180 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-14 23:56 UT (#629456-58)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2
 
Image
CCD Image (70% size, log scale)
Image details as above
 
NGC 5322 / Herschel I-256 - Earlier Image
Image
CCD Image (100% size, log scale, cropped)
2 x 180 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2018-09-02 01:56 UT (#624093-94)
12" LX200R  (at f/10.4) + ST-10XME
Auto-guided using TS 80mm APO, ZWO ASI178MC & PHD2

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SharpCap Files (S6209)

SharpCap Session - 2018-09-14 S00629

ObjectFolderCapture
Area
Colour
Space
BinExpGainGammaTemp.
(C)
Subtract
Dark
Output
Format
Num
Frames
Stacked
Frames
Total
Exp
Num
.fits
Raw
.fits
Num
.png
Proc
.png
Num
.ser
Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner02_53_09Z3096x2080RAW8150ms2555012.7SER110000
  " 02_55_28Z3096x2080RGB24215.8s4005013.5FITS8+82.1m20010
  " 02_58_53Z3096x2080RGB24210s4005013.2FITS12+122m20010
  " 03_01_05Z200000
  " 03_02_35Z200000
  " 03_03_15Z200000
  " 03_03_48Z200000
  " 03_05_19Z200000
  " 03_05_57Z200000
  " 03_06_38Z200000
  " 03_06_58Z800x600RGB24210s4005012.8FITS12+122m20010
  " 03_09_48Z200000
M3103_12_40Z3096x2080RGB24210s4005012.7FITS30+305m20010
  " 03_20_47Z3096x2080RGB24210s4005012.7FITS36+366m20010

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