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CCD Images - Session 366 (2009-05-03)

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Objects Session Notes
Bullet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) - Comet
Bullet NGC 4038 / 4039 - Interacting Galaxy Pair ("The Antennae")
Bullet Hickson 50 - Galaxy Cluster
Bullet C/2006 Q1 (McNaught) - Comet
Bullet Astrometric & Photometric Monitoring
- U Gem (dwarf nova)
- HR Aur, KR Aur, SY Cnc, DY Per, GK Per (variables)
- Groombridge 1618, Groombridge 1830, Lalande 21185 (Nearby Stars)

- SS Cyg attempt (failed due to cloud)

 
- Late Evening Session (2.5 hrs), 
- Operated under automated control / remote control. 
- Ambient Temperature  5 deg C, decreasing to 2 deg C, then climbing to 4 deg as clouds developed. Poor seeing.
- CCD operation -25 degC (at 65% average cooling).  
- main objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. 
- opportunity taken to acquire images of certain gallery objects  
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C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) - Comet

C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) passing through starfield in Perseus

Image
CCD Image (Cropped to central area)
2 x 30s sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2009-05-03 22:24 h UT (#366028-30)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

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NGC 4038 / 4039 - Interacting Galaxy Pair ("The Antennae")

NGC 4038/4039, ARP 244 (Corvus)
Image
Annotated CCD Image 
(cropped to central area)
9 x 60 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2009-05-03 22:56 h UT  (#366055-63)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

 

NGC 4038/4039, ARP 244  - detail
Image
Negative CCD Image 
Image details as above

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Hickson 50 - Galaxy Cluster

Hickson 50 (Ursa Major)
reportedly the faintest, most challenging of the Hickson catalogue
Distance ~ 2 billion light years

H50A (PGC 34447, catalog mag +18.7), 
H50B (PGC 34452, catalog mag +18.2),
H50C (PGC 34444, catalog mag +18.7),
H50D (PGC34448, catalog mag +18.7),
H50E (PGC 34453)

Other galaxies ; PGC 2485269 (catalog mag +16.5),
PGC 2483762 (catalog mag +17.6), PGC 2483895 (catalog mag +17.9)
Image
Annotated Negative CCD Image 
(250% size enlargement, cropped) 
4 x 90 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2009-05-03 23:55h UT  (#366113-19)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

 

Hickson 50 - detail
Image
CCD Image 
(250% size enlargement, cropped)
Image details as above

  

Hickson 50 - wider view
Image
CCD Image 
(cropped, 100% size scaling)
Image details as above

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C/2006 Q1 (McNaught) - Comet

C/2006 Q1 (McNaught) passing through starfield in Hercules
This was the great comet of Jan 2007
(see 2007 pictures by Phil Hart, Melbourne, Australia )

Image
CCD Image (Cropped to central area)
3 x 90s sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter
2009-05-03 23:35 h UT (#366108-110)
12" LX200R  (at f/5.7) + ST-10XME

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Astrometric and Photometric Monitoring

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