nakbrooks Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Who is going to post the first photo with ASA equipment? Won't be me, I'm still commissioning:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 I heard about it last night but it was cloudy. No clear spells for a few days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Cloudy here... maybe tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Struggling with cloud, but here is a single 5 minute frame: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted January 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 You're lucky to have got that one George. Most of the country seems to be covered with cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 There are a few clear spells. I managed to get some photometry for the Supernova. The magnitude is pretty close to 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted January 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Excellent. Did you measure relative to one or more reference stars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 (edited) I used 7 reference stars as provided by AAVSO. They are in the table as Ref1 etc. Edited January 26, 2014 by GeorgeCarey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted January 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 I think you may have sold yourself short when you said in the other thread (about adding science topics to the forum) that you didn't know how to start with science work! This is a good example of why we need science topics in the forum so these sort of results can be posted and compared between members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 I know how to do simple photometry, but I don't know how to take observations that will contribute to science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 I thought I had discovered a nova in M31 this morning. Unfortunately I was beaten to it by the Palomar Transient Factory. Scroll down this page for the details: http://geoastro.co.uk/january2014.htm However, it shows that such discoveries are well with reach of the amateur! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Good one George. That's what I like about photometry/astrometry - plenty of opportunities for the keen amateur with decent but fairly modest equipment to spot things that the professionals may not yet have got around to finding (although in this case obviously they did). I'm getting very frustrated with the delay in getting my observatory in France operational but there's been several weeks of cloud, and it could be some time yet before we have a weather forecast good enough to make it worth the risk of getting people to travel down there from England and Austria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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