Wednesday, April 21, 2010

MOA 2010-BLG-158

MOA 2010-BLG-158
RA: 17:56:43.83
Dec: -31:58:17.12
Optics: Celestron C14
Focal length: 2634mm
Pixel Scale; 0.70"/pixel
Camera: SBIG ST7 XME Deluxe
CCD: KAF-0402ME class 1
Filters: Wratten #12
Exposure: 300 sec
Observers: Guy Thornley, David Moorhouse, Michelle Knowler

No observations taken event called off by uFun

Friday, April 16, 2010

MOA 2010-BLG-146

MOA 2010-BLG-146
RA: 17:55:25.79
Dec: -28:58:06.20
Optics: Celestron C14
Focal length: 2634mm
Pixel Scale; 0.70"/pixel
Camera: SBIG ST7 XME Deluxe
CCD: KAF-0402ME class 1
Filters: Wratten #12
Exposure: 300 sec
Observers: Guy Thornley, David Moorhouse, Michelle Knowler

Turned out to be binary

Sunday, April 11, 2010

New QHA antenna

Put up a new QHA antenna today to try diversity reception on the Satellite reciever. Getting a lot of interferance not sure why yet. Seems like a cable issue.

Bunkroom PC

Guy replaced the motherboard, CPU and memory on the bunkroom PC as it was very noisey.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

MOA 2010-BLG-077

RA: 18:03:26.88
Dec: -30:40:06.12
Optics: Celestron C14
Focal length: 2634mm
Pixel Scale; 0.70"/pixel
Camera: SBIG ST7 XME Deluxe
CCD: KAF-0402ME class 1
Filters: Wratten #12
Exposure: 300 sec
Observers: Guy Thornley, David Moorhouse, Michelle Knowler

First night clear skies, good seeing and transparency. Had a few issues with autoguider lossing lock during the night.

Second night again clear all night. Seeing not as good as last. Autoguider again playing up as we went over the meridian, perhaps a balance issue, time will tell.

Time has told, it's a Binary :-(




Thursday, April 1, 2010

MOA 2010-BLG-069

MOA 2010-BLG-069
RA: 17:52:31.74
Dec: -30:39:49.75
Optics: Celestron C14
Focal length: 2634mm
Pixel Scale; 0.70"/pixel
Camera: SBIG ST7 XME Deluxe
CCD: KAF-0402ME class 1
Filters: Wratten #12
Exposure: 300 sec
Observers: David Moorhouse, Michelle

Good night, didn't get started until about 1am as there was to much passing cloud but then got a good run until about 4.30am. Target is bright and well seperated from other stars.

Second night got an early start at about midnight but high air mass of 4! Pics were average, again got stopped after a few hours by cloud. This late night stuff is harsh.

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