August 4, 2009
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Edited notes to add filter information.
Replaced TARGET in fits headers with correct target.



Night of July 31 - August 1, 2009
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After a week of rain a cool front cleared the area and we have a clear sky with
stable seeing at sunset.

The dome AC has been on, large fan running.  Telescope is about 4 degrees F
above ambient air ~75F at sunset.


Telescope fans are on at 85%.

Small dome fan is on and AC is running.  Large fan is off for the observation
period.

Apogee U16M with IFW3 and CRGB 50 mm square filter set.  Did not adjust focus
from previous best adjustment.


Targets
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Epsilon Lyrae
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epslyr_3 to epslyr_15
point_16 to pointW_22


Demonstrate good seeing and pointing precision.

For point_ series, slew to target using xmtel, then off target by using the
xmtel manual control first to the north.  From this ~2' offset, slew back to
target using xmtel and take pointN_17.fits.

Repeat to S, E, and W.
0.25 S exposures with C filter
Dark frame epslyr_15.fits
~3 pixel FWHM or 1.2 seconds short exposure seeing in epslyr_13 and _14


M57
---

Camera had warmed up during a software recycle.  Best images are at the end of
the sequence:

Target name in original files says eps lyrae.


m57_dark_34 100 s dark
m57_33 100 s blue
m57_32 100 s green
m57_31 100 s red
m57_30 100 s clear
m57_29 100 s blue
m57_28 100 s blue
m57_dark_27 100 s dark
m57_26 100 s blue
m57_25 100 s green
m57_24 100 s red


M27
---

Two images in each color and two clear.  Total exposure time 800s.
Should yield a good color composite. Original target names need to be changed
to M27 from eps lyrae.

m27_53.fits  C 100s
m27_54.fits  R 100s
m27_55.fits  G 100s
m27_56.fits  B 100s
m27_dark_57.fits dark 100s
m27_58.fits  B 100s 
m27_59.fits  C 100s
m27_60.fits  R 100s  slightly elongated tracking 
m27_61.fits  R 100s
m27_62.fits  G 100s
m27_dark_57.fits


HD209458
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Original target name in header is eps lyrae and should be changed.

hd209458_35.fits C 1s
hd209458_36.fits dark 1s
hd209458_37.fits C 2s
hd209458_38.fits dark 2s
hd209458_39.fits R 2s
hd209458_40.fits G 2s
hd209458_41.fits G 2s
hd209458_42.fits G 1s
hd209458_43.fits B 1s
hd209458_44.fits B 1s 
hd209458_45.fits G 1s
hd209458_46.fits C 1s
hd209458_47.fits C 2s
hd209458_dark_48.fits dark 2s
hd209458_49.fits R 10s
hd209458_50.fits G 10s
hd209458_51.fits B 10s
hd209458_dark_52.fits dark 10s



Jupiter
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Set exposure time to 0.25 seconds and repeated exposures with different filters.
Jupiter was rising through the trees and was largely in open area with
these were recorded.

jupiter_63.fits
jupiter_64.fits
jupiter_65d.fits
jupiter_65.fits
jupiter_66d.fits
jupiter_66.fits
jupiter_67d.fits
jupiter_67.fits
jupiter_68d.fits
jupiter_68.fits
jupiter_69d.fits
jupiter_69.fits
jupiter_70d.fits
jupiter_70.fits
jupiter_71d.fits
jupiter_71.fits
jupiter_72d.fits
jupiter_72.fits
jupiter_73d.fits
jupiter_73.fits
jupiter_74d.fits
jupiter_74.fits
jupiter_75d.fits
jupiter_75.fits
jupiter_76d.fits
jupiter_76.fits
jupiter_78.fits
jupiter_79.fits
jupiter_b.fits  average of 73d 74d 75d 76d
jupiter_dark_77.fits
jupiter_g.fits  average of 69d 70d 71d 72d
jupiter_r.fits  average of 65d 66d 67d 38d
jupiter_rgb.tif Color composite
jupiter_rgb_usm.jpg Color composite unsharp masked
jupiter_rgb_usm.tif