Red Barn Observatory Observations 20081020

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Date: 20081020

Session: Observations 20081020

Detections: 5

Submissions: 25

Sky Conditions: Clear - Bright Moon after Midnight

It was a clear night and I was able to put the scope to work again. Still, I didn't prepare anything special - mostly just a general scan of random objects in the sky to see how the scope was working. I see room for slightly adjusting the mount, but I think I'm going to leave it where it's at. It's doing well and I don't think I can make any real "fine" adjustments to the mount. Below is the list of objects I worked on last night.

The Orionid's are also beginning to show well. The all sky camera recorded 21 bright meteors last night with at least 18 of them being Orionid's. Info on that can be found here.

Comet 205P/2008 R6 (Giacobini)

Magnitude ~16.2 - 1.40"/min P.A. 103.2

30 - 60 second exposures

0.3m SCT f/4.4 Scope

SBIG ST-7 CCD 2x2 bin

Comet 51P/Harrington

Magnitude ~16.7 - 0.15"/min P.A. 292.7

26 - 60 second exposures

0.3m SCT f/4.4 Scope

SBIG ST-7 CCD 2x2 bin

Saturn Nebula

Over exposed image

30 - 60 second exposures

0.3m SCT f/4.4 Scope

SBIG ST-7 CCD 2x2 bin

This image of the Saturn Nebula is really overexposed. The reason is, there's two asteroids in the field and a longer exposure was needed to obtain astrometry from these objects.

Asteroid 16498

Magnitude ~18.3 - 0.32"/min P.A. 292.7

30 - 60 second exposures

0.3m SCT f/4.4 Scope

SBIG ST-7 CCD 2x2 bin

Asteroid 16489 shows well in this field at magnitude 18.3. Asteroid F0702 was also in this field and I was able to get measurements from it. It was around magnitude 19.6 and was easily visible while blinking "stacked" images. See astrometry below.

Below is the entire MPC Report I submitted on 20081020.

COD H68
CON S. Farmer Jr., 865 WB Parks Road Ty Ty, Georgia USA 31795 [sefarmer@cometary.net]
OBS S. Farmer Jr.
MEA S. Farmer Jr.
TEL 0.30-m f/5 Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2008.10.20 13:27:45
AC2 sefarmer@cometary.net
NET USNO-B1.0
K00R30P C2008 10 20.07454 21 03 40.54 -11 23 43.9 20.2 V H68
K00R30P C2008 10 20.08246 21 03 40.92 -11 23 40.5 19.9 V H68
K00R30P C2008 10 20.09039 21 03 41.39 -11 23 35.8 19.3 V H68
0051P C2008 10 20.43021 04 53 35.24 +17 58 58.3 17.4 N H68
0051P C2008 10 20.43345 04 53 35.16 +17 58 59.0 17.3 N H68
0051P C2008 10 20.43669 04 53 35.11 +17 58 59.1 17.7 N H68
0051P C2008 10 20.43991 04 53 35.04 +17 58 59.1 17.5 N H68
0051P C2008 10 20.44718 04 53 34.92 +17 58 59.9 17.1 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.11152 21 53 22.05 -12 43 16.1 16.3 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.11318 21 53 22.25 -12 43 16.7 16.1 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.11977 21 53 23.12 -12 43 19.7 16.1 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.12143 21 53 23.34 -12 43 20.5 16.0 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.12473 21 53 23.75 -12 43 22.0 16.0 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.12638 21 53 23.98 -12 43 22.7 16.4 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.12967 21 53 24.39 -12 43 24.4 16.1 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.13132 21 53 24.62 -12 43 25.0 15.6 N H68
0205P C2008 10 20.13462 21 53 25.04 -12 43 26.7 16.7 N H68
16498 C2008 10 20.07454 21 04 07.60 -11 26 05.5 18.4 V H68
16498 C2008 10 20.07731 21 04 07.65 -11 26 06.0 19.3 V H68
16498 C2008 10 20.08365 21 04 07.81 -11 26 07.5 18.4 V H68
16498 C2008 10 20.08999 21 04 07.98 -11 26 08.9 18.6 V H68
16498 C2008 10 20.09277 21 04 08.07 -11 26 09.5 18.8 V H68
F0702 C2008 10 20.11277 21 53 31.69 -12 41 03.7 20.3 V H68
F0702 C2008 10 20.12926 21 53 32.30 -12 41 02.2 19.4 V H68
F0702 C2008 10 20.13339 21 53 32.52 -12 41 01.1 19.9 V H68
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