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CCD Images - Session 518 (2012-10-29)

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Bullet Comet 168P/Hergenrother
 
Bullet Photometric Monitoring - Variables
- R CrB
Bullet Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars
- None
- Short Evening session (1.4 hrs duration). 
Slight Wind, rapidly becoming overcast,
- Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer.  
(via Power-Line networking)
- Ambient Temperature: 0.5 deg C (minimum) 
- CCD operation -25 degC (at 61% average cooling).  
- main objectives of the session were to acquire images of comet 168P/Hergenrother
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Comet 168P/Hergenrother

168P/Hergenrother
(moving through starfield in Andromeda)
Image
CCD Image (50% size)
6  x 15s exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 
2012-10-29 19:19 hUT (#518017-28)
12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

  

168P/Hergenrother  - detail
Image
Negative CCD Image  
(Linear scaling,  100% size, cropped)
Image details as above

   

Image 

False Colour CCD Image / Inverse Spectrum
(100% size, square root scaling, cropped)
Image details as above

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