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Session Notes

M101 - Spiral Galaxy Photometric Monitoring - Variables - RX And, U And, W And, TT Ari, R CrB, CI Cyg, SS Cyg - AM Her, U Her, CY Lyr, RU Peg,  FG Sge, U Sge, V Sge, ER UMa, SU UMa Photometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - 61 Cyg, Groombridge 1618

- Night session (2.7 hr). Wind/Poor seeing.. - Operated in Observatory under manual and semi-automated control. Later operated under automated control with remote monitoing - Ambient Temperature  varying between 11 and 12.5 deg  - CCD operation -20 degC (at 78% average cooling).   - main objective of the session was to acquire images of key selected stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  - opportunity take to get a nice image of galaxy M101 at start of session