Observing Log for Mike Durkin
8/31/2012 about 10:00PAM-11:30PM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 6/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: About 80-90 degrees
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT
DSLR measurements of R Lyr, XY Lyr, and P Cyg. The full moon and hazy sky made things a bit difficult.
8/28/2012 about 9:00PM-11:00PM
Forest Hills, NY
Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: About 70-80 degrees
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT
I took a DSLR measurement of P Cyg from the front of my apartment building. Either there was too much haze, or
there was too much ambient light becuase the sky background was very bright. I probably won't be using the
front of the apartment building as a site to use my camera.
8/26/2012 about 9:00AM-11:30PM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 6/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: About 60-70 degrees
Equipment: Stellarvue 70mm refractor.
Observed variable stars α Her and R Aql. I wanted to try to do some DSLR photometry, but clouds came
in and I had to shut down.
8/26/2012 about 1:00AM-3:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 6/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: About 60-70 degrees
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT
DSLR photometry of P Cyg and R Lyr. Very annoying waiting for clouds to clear a little bit in order t try to use my camera.
8/19/2012 about 2:00AM-4:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 9/10, Seeing ?/5
Temperature: ??
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT
DSLR photometry of P Cyg, ρ Cas, and X Per.
8/16/2012 about 9:00PM-3:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 60-70 degrees
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT with zoom lens.
Imaged IC 1396
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One of my less successful images. The stars streaking in the bottom left was because the center of the field of view moved
when I inspected the images on the camera. Location: Long Island, NY Camera: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT Lens: Tamron 75-300, 168mm @f/7.1 Exposure: 38x4 minutes(152 minutes) Filter: Astronomik CLS ISO: 1600 AstroTrac used for Tracking Calibrated with dark and flat frames. |
And I also took a DSLR measurement of P Cyg.
8/13/2012 about 10:00PM-12:30AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 6/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 60-70 degrees
Equipment: Stellarvue 70mm refractor
Measured variable stars:
Z UMa
VY UMa
α Her
R Aql
RS Her
R Cyg
I also showed off the Hercules cluster, M13, to Sean when he came home. It wasn't too impressive in the 70mm scope.
8/13/2012 about 1:00AM-3:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 8/10, Seeing 4/5
Temperature: about 70-80 degrees
Equipment: Hutech modified Canon Rebel XT.
After getting back from Jones Beach, I did some DSLR photometry measurements of R Lyr, XY Lyr, P Cyg, and γ Cas.
8/12/2012 about 11:30PM-1:00AM
Jones Beach, NY
Transparency: 8/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 70-80 degrees
Equipment: 10x50 binoculars.
I went to meet Al at the beach to look for some Perseids, even though it was a day after the peak. He asked me to set up the 70mm for the kids, but I forgot by eyepieces so I could only use the 10x50 binoculars. I showed everyone the Andromeda galaxy. I had trouble finding other targets to show.
I did manage to see one very bright Perseid at the beach. It was bright enough to leave a bit of a vapor trail.
8/4/2012 about 10:30PM-1:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 4/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 70-80 degrees
Equipment: 70mm Steallarvue refractor, 10x50 binoculars.
Very cloudy, but enough sucker holes to make a couple of variable star measurements of
XY Lyr and W Boo.
I spent a lot of the time waiting for clearings until it got too bad around 1 AM.
8/2/2012 about 8:30PM-10:00PM
Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center, Jones Beach.
Transparency: 5/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 70-80 degrees
Equipment: 70mm Steallarvue refractor.
AOS public observing event.
The moon was nearly full and the air was very humid which affect transparency.
I showed a couple of people the moon. I also took a quick look at Saturn and Alberio myself.
I did try to see if I could try to do some DSLR photometry of P Cyg, but after a quick 6 second exposure,
the background seemed too bright, so I decided against it.
Before I left, I made a visual measurement of α Her.
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