Observing Log for Mike Durkin
11/29/2015 about 7:00PM-8:00PM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 3-6/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 35-45 degrees
Equipment: 70mm Stallervue and 10x50 binoculars
Measured variable stars CN Cyg, RT Cyg and V1339 Cyg.
There was a thin layer of clouds the whole time which is why I had to stop
early.
I also stumbled across the stars in omicron Cyg, which looked like a very nice
colorful combination of 3 stars in the 70mm scope.
11/20/2015 about 7:00PM-2:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 8/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 35-45 degrees
Equipment: Canon T3i DSLR and Celestron Ultima 8 SCT
A fairly productive evening.
First some DSLR photometry of P Cyg, CH Cyg, γ Cas, κ Cas and
ρ Cas.
Then I decided to see if I could get the Linux laptop to work for autoguiding.
Initially my polar alignment was very rough and the guiding was not working.
But after I used the finderscope to get a much better alignment, things started
looking better. I also decreased the pulse amount to about 700.
Then after that I decided to try to do a piggyback shot of the Orion nebula,
Horsehead nebula and Flame nebula. Then it started to get a little cloudy.
And finally I did a visual measurment of α Ori.
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Image of the lower half of Orion. This is the first image I took using my Linux laptop for autoguiding. Camera: Hutech modified Canon Rebel T3i Location: Long Island, NY Lens: Tamron 75-300mm (at about 100mm) ISO: 1600 Exposure: 67x15 seconds (16.75 minutes) Guiding: 8 inch SCT, Meade DSI Pro, GPUSB and Linux laptop using Kstars/Ekos. Calibrated with dark and flat frames. Processed using MaximDL, Photoshop and the Astronomy Tools plug in. |
11/8/2015 about 7:00PM-10:30PM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 4/5
Temperature: about 40-50 degrees
Equipment: Canon T3i DSLR
DSLR photometry of R Lyr, P Cyg, CH Cyg, AG Peg, γ Cas, ρ Cas and κ Cas.
Early on in the evening, I saw a meteor that was located low in the southwest. The origin pointed toward the east or southeast. I didn't notice any other
meteors during the evening.
Added note: I looked up meteor showers for November and the meteor I saw
could have been a Taurid.
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