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CCD Images - Session 248 (2007-12-27)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet 8P/Tuttle - Comet
Bullet UGC 1840 - Peculiar Galaxy (ARP 145)
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- SS Cyg (dwarf nova)
- BL Lac (Blazar)
- RU Peg, DY Per (variables)
- Z And, 
- Evening session (2.7hr).  Poor transparency, High cirrus cloud developing 
- CCD operation of -20 degC (at 86% average cooling). 
- main objectives were to acquire images of certain selected stars of ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis, in particular Z And and RU Peg
- follow up images on 8P/Tuttle were acquired
- an attempt to to acquire a gallery image of ARP 145 was made, but suffered from poor sky transparency

8P/Tuttle - Comet  

Comet 8P/Tuttle  - passing through starfield in Andromeda

Image
CCD Image 
3 x 30s exposure , 2x2 binning, C Filter
Aligned on comet
2007-12-27 18:16h UT (#248127-35)

   

Comet 8P/Tuttle - colour image

Image
Approximate Colour CCD Image  (CBVR)
Luminance : av 3x 30s (C),
Red : av 3 x 30s (R), Green : av 3 x 30s (V), Blue : av 5 x 60s (B)
2007-12-27 18:17h UT (#248127-38)

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UGC 1840 - Peculiar Galaxy (ARP 145)

UGC 1840 / ARP 145 (Andromeda)

Image

CCD Image
180 sec, 2x2 binning, C Filter
2007-12-25 19:58hUT (#248217-21)

 

UGC 1840 / ARP 145 - detail

Image

CCD Image (250% size, cropped)
Image details as above

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Astrometric and Photometric Monitoring

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