Observing Log for Mike Durkin 3/22/2015 about 8:00PM-12:00AM midnight Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 3/5 Temperature: about 25-35 degrees Equipment: Canon Tebel T3i Photometry of γ Cas, κ Cas, ρ Cas, X Per, PU Aur, ε Aur, and ε Leo. First time measurements of PU Aur and ε Leo. ε Leo may not be a real variable star, it is only a suspected variable star. There were also some clouds observed when I tried to image ε Aur. I also relized I forgot to set my camera clock ahead for DST after my Cassiopeia shots, so those are GMT-5 and the rest are GMT-4. And the exposure time for the Cassiopeia shots was also a but less than I should have set. I had set to 6 seconds whcn it probably should have been for 10. 3/22/2015 about 12:00AM-1:30AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 4-8/10, Seeing 3/5 Temperature: about 35-45 degrees Equipment: 10x50 binoculars and Stellarvue 70mm refractor. Variable star measurements of η Gem, BU Gem, TV Gem, R Gem and X Cnc. I was going to try to do Z UMa, but clouds rolled in. 3/8/2015 about 9:00-9:15PM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: about 35-45 degrees Equipment: none Just did a quick visual magnitude measurement of α Ori. Nice to do something again since last month the weather was awful, but I am still feeling a little sick, so just did the one measurement. Other Log Entries <-- 2014 Jan  Feb   Mar   Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec   2016 -->