Mission 26 August - 3 September 2006
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On this page we will give you a daily logging of our mission. Sunday, 20 August 2006
We will go to the observatory on Saturday the 26th of August. From then on, you can daily follow the course of our mission. Sunday, 27 August 2006  Indeed, the sun. With the new solar-max filter we saw the evolution of some nice protuberances. We could hardly believe it, but the clouds stayed away until the sun set. We detected even see some hints of a green flash:  The night announces to be very good. It is now 4 o'clock in the morning. We explore the night with a good transparency. The milky-way is visible from horizon to horizon. Some nice treasures are already observed with our dobsonian telescopes. The observatories main telescope, the 62cm Cassegrenian telescope, is equipped with the SBIG ST8e camera, the 2-reducer and a red filter. We are doing our first photometric observations. We will tell more about it later, when some results are available. Tuesday, 29 August 2006  ... clouds came in. Monday was a day full of clouds and also for today, observing will not be possible. For the coming days, better weather is foreseen. Let's hope... We spend our day with some walks in the nice environment   And we got a visit of Jo  We also spend some time in processing our observations of Sunday evening. Although a more precise analysis is necessary (and that's for the coming weeks), a first quick processing gives already a nice result. The main topic on our observation program is a start in CCD photometry. On the first night we got the opportunity to measure the occultation of an exo-planet. Luckily, the occultation of the exo-planet around HD 189433 is currently the easiest of the known visible exo-planet occultations. We start our observations around 22h (local time). The start of the occultation was foreseen 2 hours later. A first processing gives the following result:  This observation confirms a drop of 3% (0.03 magnitude) during an occultation which lasts for about 2 hours. We hope to do more successful photometry observations during to coming nights. Wednesday, 30 August 2006  and night.  As usual the earth-shadow was clearly visible above the mountains in the east. Finally we could continue our observations. This night we go for the pretty pictures, like the eagle nebula (M16):  Please keep in mind that this like the other images, is an almost not processed (and even not pre-processed) image. The final result will be available on this web site within a few weeks. We also make images of the comet 177P Barnard :  Within 2 hours the sun will rise and we will go our bed... See you tomorrow. Thursday, 31 August 2006  Target for the T62 is the minor planet Interamnia, from which we will try to capture the light curve. Like the previous nights, we install out-side the observatory our own telescopes to observe various deep sky objects. Because the moon is today in his first quarter, some stellar occultations by the moon can be observed. We will again observe until sunset. Friday, 1 September 2006  The rest of the day we spend with a nice walk in the neighborhood and to start with the preparation of our leaving. We got some special guests:  They also enjoy the nice sunny weather. Last night we could observe until the morning hours and it seems that also for the next, and for us last, night we will able to enjoy the night until the morning. Some people could even not wait until the sunset was past to start the observations:  On the program of the T62 is a measure of the light-curve of the minor Planet Shiroa, which is because of its faint magnitude a real challenge. The last observation of this mission will be a deep sky treasure : NGC7331. Sunday, 3 September 2006 |
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2006
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