Re: [Utah-astronomy] In case anyone would like to help...
Patrick, What time in Utahn will it happen Friday night? (I don't talk that there UTC). -- Joe --- On Wed, 7/8/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] In case anyone would like to help... To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 11:15 PM Simple (well, maybe not simple), To help out take a series of FITS images (say a couple per minute) of the target star starting an hour before the predicted start of the eclipse and keep it up until an hour after it's predicted to end (or until one gets tired...). Once you've got the images I'll help you reduce and measure them. Cheers, patrick On 08 Jul 2009, at 23:11 , Joe Bauman wrote:
Congrats! So how does one help? -- Joe
--- On Wed, 7/8/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] In case anyone would like to help... To: "utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:31 PM
Well the pendulum appears to have swung back to the opinion that the "find" I stumbled across the other day is indeed a "discovery". And I am being asked to keep an eye on it.
I got another good run at it last night and it eclipsed right on time. The next possibility for Utahans to work it will be Friday night MDT or, in UT, on the 11th between 0525 and 0737.
If anyone here is inclined to help please let me know and I'll supply details.
Thanks,
patrick
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Hi Joe, On 09 Jul 2009, at 11:26, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, What time in Utahn will it happen Friday night?
While we are on Daylight Silly Time you subtract 6 hours from UT. So the 11th between 0525 and 0737 UT works out to be 23:25 the night of the 10th to 01:37 the morning of the 11th here in Utah. And remember that you'll want to start imaging well before it's predicted to start and end well after it's predicted to end. I typically start one hour before and go until one hour after. I'd suggest practicing ahead of time to make sure you can find the star and also to shoot a few test shots to get the exposure right (I typically shoot 15 or 30 second exposures). And don't forget to shoot several darks and flats (I do 15 of each) once you have the camera attached and focused (using the same binning, focus, temperature, camera orientation and exposure length as the light shots) so you can turn them into the master dark and flat files you'll need to reduce the raw images. Let me know if you have any questions. You're welcome to call tonight (I'll be up all night working an exo-planet). 435.882.1209. Thanks for your interest, patrick
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