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209P/LINEAR 5-21-14 Clouded out after 4 minutes
A sucker hole opened up and I thought I'd have a chance to make a short
movie of this comet that may or may not have left debris we'll see as the meteor shower the morning of the 24th (UT) in my part of the world anyway. It's heading south fast. It will be down near the celestial equator in a few days but was in Ursa Major heading south rather rapidly. I got 4 one minute frames tracking on the comet before the clouds totally closed up. The second frame was only usable for the first 15 seconds or so. The third was seeing photons only the last 5 seconds. Fourth frame was fine for about 50 seconds before going dark. So while this is a 4 minute exposure only 2 minutes 10 second of data was collected and much of that dimmed by clouds. Considering conditions this turned out far better than I could have hoped. I'll try again weather permitting. But it was to be clear last night and except for about 10 minutes (I spent most of that waiting for it to get dark) it was totally overcast with sporadic rain. These 4 frames were taken a good hour before the end of astronomical twilight! I hope for good skies the morning of the 24. Forecast is good but it was good for this night too. The image was taken and displayed at 1.5" per pixel binned 3x3. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x1'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Prefix is correct. Domain is arvig dot net |
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