Observing Log and commentary Leyland Observatory Len Adam

November 2012

1 Thursday 1st November 2012 Thursday 1st November 2012 Will this really be a daylight comet? I have just downloaded the image of the field of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) that is predicted to be a naked eye object in Autumn 2013. I used the 32 inch Mount Lemmon Telescope belonging to the November 2012 University of Arizona that is part of the Sierra network to make the exposure. It was a 5 minute Observations exposure taken yesterday at 11:26 U.T. There is an object at the precise spot indicated by the SKyX chart for the comet that I have circled in the image below. Reference magnitudes would indicate that Len Adam the comet is around mag 17. I plate solved the image in the SKy6 and measured the magnitude using the CCDSoft/Sky6 facility at mag 17.55. (See the image on the next page - bottom left - taken a few days later (very close to the moon) that confirms this is the comet showing exact positions corresponding to predictions)

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Comet C\2012 S1 ISON 2012 31 Oct. 11: 26 U.T. Remote image from Schulman 0.81-m. Mt Lemmon Arizona 300s exp. SBIG STX KAF-16803 binned 2x2 0.65 arcsec /pixel. FOV 22.5’X22.5’ UCAC3 Reference Magnitudes Unfiltered mag measured at 17.55 Len Adam 2

Thursday 1st November 2012

Including Magnified view By the 5th November 2012 the comet had moved to here

Location on 31 Oct 2012

Image Courtesy of the University of Arizona The Schulman telescope 3 Thursday 1st November 2012 The orbit of the comet is shown below - it is heading for the at a sharp angle to the plane of the ecliptic.

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. It is currently 5.6 AU from the – i.e. Over 5 times further away from us than the Sun itself. Not surprising then that it is very faint at the moment . When it gets closer it will get brighter – the warmth of the Sun will begin to melt some of the icy content and a tail will develop. At its closest to the Earth it will be at a distance of about 0.43 AU - around 13 times nearer than it is now. It is predicted to be a daytime comet as bright as the full Moon and could be a good Christmas Comet.

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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Thursday 1st November 2012

I realised that on 26th October I had also carried out a supernova search on 38 in that I had omitted from my October log. (No supernovae found) .This is the first image – PGC 16158.

PGC 16158

Courtesy of Software Bisque

This is the solved image placed behind the SkyX chart – meaning that labels e.g. Magnitudes are superimposed on the image – an excellent feature.

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Plate solution for another Auriga – PGC 16918 showing magnitudes of stars superimposed on the image by the solution.

Courtesy of Software Bisque

The corresponding DSS image 85s exposure

Courtesy of The Oschin Schmidt Telescope operated by the California Institute of Technology and Palomar Observatory.

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PGC 17954 image superimposed on the SkyX chart and the C14/ST9XE Field of View Indicator.

Courtesy of Software Bisque

The image of PGC 17954 in Auriga

7 Friday 2nd November 2012 Friday 2nd November 2012

An image of M52 was attempted using the iTelescope.net T20 telescope.

T20

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Unfortunately the image was greyed out so I will try for this object on another occasion.

(See Wednesday 21st November)

8 Friday 2nd November 2012 SJ O’Meara Hidden Treasures Target NGC 6503 – The Lost in Space Having purchased the above author’s excellent Hidden Treasures book on Sunday in Manchester , I am locating images that I have previously taken that correspond to some of his targets and finding out more about them. This is a 30 second image taken on 20th April 2011. There was no cooling for some reason as the FITS header shows a 12 degree temperature.

The plate solution above shows a plate scale of 2-02 arcseconds per pixel and a Field of View of 17 minutes X 17 minutes.

Courtesy of ESA/Hubble and NASA A Hubble view of NGC 6503. The pink glowing areas are starbirth regions . The galaxy is called the “Lost in Space” galaxy by Stephen O’Meara because it is located at the edge of a void (shades of Star Trek). It is only one third the major axis size of our Galaxy and is a Dwarf Spiral Galaxy. Arthur Auwers the German astronomer discovered the galaxy in 1854. It lies at a distance of 17 million Light Years.

9 Friday 2nd November 2012 The location of NGC 6503 in Draco

Courtesy of Cartes du Ciel

10 Telescope Image Courtesy of iTelescope .net Friday 2nd November 2012 This is the same M42 image that I previously showed the luminance file for – P44 October Log.

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This is the “Running Man” nebula – taken from the M42 image above.

The images below are interesting sections of the above image for further study.

12 Colour variation of theM42 image. Friday 2nd November 2012

13 Sunday 4th November 2012 Sunday 4th November 2012 A busy morning and evening with observations and images of NGC 1499, 2 comets , 38 galaxies in Auriga, 20 galaxies in Cassiopeia, 42 galaxies in Cygnus and 4 galaxies in Triangulum. I used the T20 iTelescope.net telescope to image the California Nebula (well part of it) in Perseus. I was looking for an emission nebula to image that was well away from the Moon to get further practice using IRIS This is the SkyX chart of the California Nebula showing the Field of View of the T20 Telescope with the solved plate superimposed. North is up in this image

The final image after processing in IRIS is shown below

Courtesy of Software Bisque

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14 The final image with North towards the top to correspond to the solved image in the chart above is shown on the next page. Sunday 4th November 2012

15 Sunday 4th November 2012 Comet C/2010 S1 (Linear) in Cygnus A series of images of Comet C/2010 S1 (Linear) were taken on Sunday night. The first is shown below

Photometry I solved the plate in SkyX and measured the magnitude in CCDSoft at 13.91 using a 14th magnitude UCAC3 reference star. Astrometry The position was measured at RA 20h 36m 57s DEC 41d 31m 05s at the date and time shown from the FITS Header.

Position of the Comet today – it is almost 6 times the distance to the Sun from Earth.

16 Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Sunday 4th November 2012 Comet 168P Hergenrother in Andromeda

168P has a period of 6.89 years. It was discovered by Carl W. Hergenrother on November 22nd 1998. Its last Perihelion (before this year) was in 1995. It was at Perihelion this year (2012) on October 1st

Other Astrometry Designations The position was measured at RA 23h 40m 30s P/1998 W2 P/2005 N2 DEC 37d 08m 51s This means that This means that it was the at the date and time shown it was the second comet discovered on the FITS Header. This is for second comet in the first half of July the head of the comet. No discovered in 2005. Of course in fact it photometry was attempted. the second half was a rediscovery of of November P/1998 W2 1998.

Because this is a short period comet (<250 years) and it HAS returned since discovery it is given the designation 168P Hergenrother. 17 Sunday 4th November 2012 During the Supernova Patrol an image was obtained of three galaxies in Cygnus all within 3 minutes of arc

PGC 67235 was the target

PGC 67239 PGC 67243

PGC 67235

PGC 67235 18 Courtesy of Software Bisque Plate solution for NGC 6946 Sunday 4th November 2012

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NGC 6946 was imaged as part of the Supernova Patrol tonight in Cygnus.

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NGC 6946 is known as the “Fireworks” Galaxy . 5 Supernovae that have occurred in this galaxy are shown in the above image. Stellar magnitudes in the region are also shown

20 Wednesday 7th November 2012 Wednesday 7th November 2012

The T20 iTelescope.net telescope in New Mexico was given the task of imaging NGC 2264 “The Christmas Tree Nebula” with a 300 second exposure.

Image Courtesy of iTelescope .com

The SkyX New Mexico Skies site document was opened to check that the choice of field of view was appropriate and that the object was in an appropriate position for imaging at that site. (Altitude) The SkyX report is shown on the left. At 59 degrees altitude it is in a good position.

21 Wednesday 7th November 2012 NGC 2264

22 Wednesday 7th November 2012 As soon as the NGC 2264 run was complete on T20 I started a run on M38

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M38 is at an altitude of almost 87 degrees. It has dimensions 15’ X 15’ so will certainly not fill the 112’ X 84’ T20 FOV. However the FOV will include Herschel H39-7 which has a FO V of 5 minutes square.

Telescope Image courtesy of iTelescope.net

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M38 itself from the full image

H39-7 from the full image This is also known as NGC 1907

26 A stretched view brings out the red nebulosity in the region Wednesday 7th November 2012

27 Wednesday 7th November 2012 Supernova 2012fm This is an image that I took that missed the supernova – although it had already been discovered. 2012fm shown in galaxy PGC 19886. The bright spot at the top left of the galaxy is the supernova. The image is from my supernova patrol of 26/27th October 2012 and the 30 second image was taken at 00:30 UT on the morning of the 27th. I could not determine a magnitude as the SN is too close to the galaxy core. Image details are below.

The image on the left was solved and the plate solution is given below

The SkyX chart of the region showing the magnitudes of nearby stars. The adjacent galaxy is PGC 19817. This galaxy was on the same supernova run and SN 2012fm is also shown in that image. (See below.) There is a star of magnitude 15.64, which is UCAC3 349- 7987, (circled) which is of similar brightness to the SN. (Check image above) However this is not an accurate estimate!

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Plate Solution for SN 2012 fm in NGC 19886 Courtesy of Software Bisque

A second image of the SN showed a trail with a bright blip towards the bottom of the image. I could not trace an object in this exact position from predictions at this time – Is this an asymmetrical rotating object or just an aircraft light flashing on? To be continued......

29 Thursday 8th November 2012 Thursday 8th November 2012 - This is about 12 minutes in diameter so I chose the iTelescope.net T3 Telescope to obtain the image which has a field of view of 36’ X 27’. Beneath the image the corresponding field of view in that telescope is shown in the chart from the SKyX.

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The M36 image was obtained with an exposure time of 300 seconds. As you can see from the Position Angle result on the Astrometric Solution (188 degrees 26 minutes) and the M36 chart, the camera on this telescope was not aligned North to South but is about 8 ½ degrees off the North South Line. North has been set towards the top of the image.

I think it best not to get too close to a when Imaging so that it stands out in relation to the sparser surrounding star field. Choosing a telescope / camera field of view about 3 times that of the major axis of the target seems to be a good option. When I did all of my observing visually with a 10” Newtonian reflector the three prominent star clusters in Auriga were a favourite.

References quote the discoverer of this cluster to be either Le Gentil in 1749 or Giovanni Battista Hodierna earlier than 1654. The arrow on the image points at Struve 737 a well known double star. It is not resolved on the above image but becomes visible if I reduce the brightness and zoom in.

In my copy of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook he describes M36as follows:

“M36 lies about 5 degrees southwest of and some 2.3 degrees distant from the cluster M38; the two clusters may be viewed together in the field of a wide- angle low power telescope. M36 is the smaller but brighter of the two, and contains about 60 stars of magnitudes 9 to 14. The central knot of bright stars measures about 10’ in diameter, and includes the easy double star Σ737, separation 10.7”. The group makes its best impression with a fairly low power (20X to 50X) on a 6-inch or 8-inch telescope. M36 is one of the younger galactic star clusters, containing bright B-type stars among its members, and would be as splendid a group as the famous if it were some 10 times closer.”

31 - I used the iTelescope.net T3 Telescope to obtain the image which has a field of Thursday 8th November 2012 view of 36’ X 27’. This open cluster is about 15 minutes in diameter and again I chose the iTelescope.net T3 Telescope to obtain the image which has a field of view of 36’ X 27’.

The M37 image was obtained with an exposure time of 300 seconds. This is certainly a “busy” cluster - in fact the astrometric solution matched 530 stars from the image with catalogued stars although not all of those would be considered part of the cluster. A figure of 150 plus is normally quoted down to about magnitude 13. The stars in this cluster are older than those in M36. The cluster lies at a distance of around 4500 Light Years and is about 25 Light Years across. There are a dozen or so red giants and one in particular (arrowed) is visible on the 32 image. Thursday 8th November 2012

An image was taken of M45 using the T14 telescope at iTelescope.net This is the image before processing in IRIS

T14 Telescope Image Courtesy of iTelescope.net 33 Thursday 8th November 2012 M45 AFTER PROCESSING IN IRIS

34 Friday 9th November 2012 Friday 9th November 2012

An image of IC 1805 was started on T20 after seeing the image of the day here http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121109.html

Courtesy of iTelescope.net

This was the sky through the all sky camera 10 minutes before the exposure started showing no Moon and no cloud! Orion clearly visible.

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The Twitter and Bolton Astronomical Society Gallery records of the nebula are shown here but the full image is below.

Courtesy of Bolton Astronomical Society 36 Friday 9th November 2012

37 Saturday 10th November 2012 Saturday 10th November 2012

I used the MicroObservatory Telescope in Arizona today to image M27, the , in colour and received the Red Blue and Green images back by email later in the day. I used CCDSoft to combine these images.

Details of image(Red)

Observer's Username: Len Adam Object: Dumbbell Nebula Filenames: DumbbellNebu121110021222.GIF and DumbbellNebu121110021222.FITS Date: Fri, Nov 09, 2012 Start Exposure: 07:12:22 PM Reference Number: Len Adam-11/09-11:37:04g Comments: MicroObservatory is run by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Town: Amado State: AZ Country: USA Telescope's Name: Donald

38 Camera: Saturday 10th November 2012 Camera: Main Exposure Time: 60.00 sec. Filter: Red Focus Value: 1950 Zoom: Out Coordinates: Celestial: : 20h 00.1m : 22 degrees 44 minutes Terrestrial: Altitude: 60 degrees 27.2 minutes Azimuth: 260 degrees 22.5 minutes Misc: Hour Angle: 02h 07.3m Local Sidereal Time: 15:06:16 Greenwich Mean Time: 02:12:22 End Exposure: 07:13:23 PM Courtesy of MicroObservatory Longitude: 110.88 Latitude: 31.68 Mode of Operation: Interactive over WWW. Tracking: Sidereal CCD Temp: 270.00 Ambient Temp: 294.00 Circuit Temp: n/a The telescopes have cameras with 650 Finder Offsets: none X 500 pixels. By solving the RED image for M27 using the SkyX a plate scale of 5.17 arcseconds per pixel was established. Also the field of view of the telescope is 56’ X 43’

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39 Saturday 10th November 2012 Solving the RED plate and displaying magnitudes shows a very crowded field as shown below. It shows a lot of 13th and 14th magnitude stars. The image of M27 is a superimposed photograph.

The location of M27 in Vulpecula

40 Saturday 10th November 2012 Minor Planet Interamnia - imaged using the MicroObservatory Telescope (Ed) located in Cambridge Massachusetts showing movement in 2 hour period.

41 Saturday 10th November 2012 Plate Solution for the image taken at 22:27:27 UT confirming the details of the Field of View and number of pixels as well as confirming the image scale as 5.18 arcseconds per pixel

Courtesy of Software Bisque

Superimposing the image above on the SkyX chart confirms the object as the Minor Planet Interamnia - the red circle is generated from the Minor Planet Database – it sits exactly on top of the object in the image. Initially the circle was not in the correct position and I realised that I had the SkyX location set to New Mexico not to Cambridge Massachusetts - changing that corrected the situation. I now aim to image a minor planet from two locations at the same time and calculate its distance from the parallax.

42 Sunday 11th November 2012 Sunday 11th November 2012

At 5 a.m. the sky was perfectly clear and at 6.22 a.m. The Moon and Venus were visible in the East. As can be seen clouds were rolling in as usual and obscurity followed shortly afterwards. The Moon phase was 9.89% and the Venus Phase 85%. The phase of Venus can be seen in the zoomed in image.

Cartes Du Ciel

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I used the Sierra Stars 24” Telescope in New Mexico to image the Supernova SN2012fg in NGC 2857 The discovery was by MASTER as PSN J09243795+4921320 and confirmed as SN2012fg. Spectroscopy shows that it is a Type IIP Supernova. It was discovered on 2012/10/07.087. The inset shows my most recent image of this galaxy taken from Spain as part of a supernova patrol using my C14/SBIG on 18th March 2012.

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44 Sunday 11th November 2012 Plate Solution of SN 2012fg image.

NOTE: The plate would not solve until the galaxy was centred in the SkyX - normally this is not necessary but is worth remembering for cases where plate will not solve. FOV was selected through the FOV indicator option under SETUP.

45 Monday 12th November 2012 Monday 12th November 2012 An image of the Pleiades was obtained using the using the MicroObservatory Telescope (Ed) located in Cambridge Massachusetts

An image of the Pleiades was received from MicroObservatory using their Massachusetts telescope..

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47 Monday 12th November 2012 An image of M35 was taken using itelescope.com T5 telescope in New Mexico during a brief opportunity to access the telescope. The sky conditions at the time were as below on the all sky camera. I had previously carried out an advanced query of Messier objects in the SkyX software to see which objects were at an altitude of greater than 60 degrees at the New Mexico Skies site and that were suitable for the field of view of the available T5 telescope.

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49 TELESCOPE T5 Monday 12th November 2012 The initial jpeg exposure arrived instantly and the fact that there is no anti-blooming gate on this camera became apparent. NGC 2158 is indicated on the image

50 Tuesday 13th November 2012 Tuesday 13th November 2012 A 2 minute exposure of M34 was taken using the T5 Telescope. The skies were clear – however as soon as the image was taken the roof closed due to cloud.

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Tuesday 13th November 2012

52 Wednesday 14th November 2012 Wednesday 14th November 2012 An image of M78 was taken using itelescope.com T5 telescope in New Mexico

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53 M78 Wednesday 14th November 2012

54 An image of NGC 2246was taken using the T20 telescope in New Mexico Wednesday 14th November 2012

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55 Friday 16th November 2012 Friday 16th November 2012

Brief clear session early evening – part of Andromeda 207 ran – poor quality clouds – murk – also Comet Hergenrother.

30 second image of Comet Hergenrother from Leyland Observatory C14+SBIG ST9XE FOV 14.75’

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The first galaxy imaged on the Andromeda 207 run PGC 2 30 seconds C14+SBIG ST9XE FOV 14.75

Conditions very poor through light pollution and thin cloud.

The third galaxy on the list NGC 7831 53 galaxy images were attempted but the last dozen or so were completely clouded out. Abandoned at 19:07 U.T.

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Saturday 17th November 2012 Warning of clouds but sky seems clear on all sky camera M77 Galaxy imaged using T3

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Run started successfully but a very poor image was obtained. I will try this target another day.

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58 Wednesday 14th November 2012 260P McNaught Imaged using T3

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Below - the telescope is slewing to 0260P

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The images below show that Comet McNaught is pretty faint – the images below were taken over a month apart. 59 Wednesday 14th November 2012 Comet 260P McNaught 17th November 2012 (TODAY)

Comet 260P McNaught 11th October 2012

60 Plate Solution for 260P on 17th November 2012 showing magnitudes of adjacent stars .Wednesday 14th November 2012

Plate Solution for 260P on 17th November 2012 – no overlay – i.e. Chart only.

The bright star HIP 6982 is magnitude 8.21

61 Plate Solution for 260P on 11th October 2012 showing magnitudes of adjacent stars . Wednesday 14th November 2012 The above image is linked and superimposed on the chart to enable stars on the image to be clicked on for information.

NOTE: The chart has been set with North towards the top.

Plate Solution for 260P on 11th October 2012 – no overlay – i.e. chart only - showing magnitudes of adjacent stars Comet 260P McNaught 11th October 2012

62 Monday 19th November 2012 MASTER OT J061017.75+414545.7 A new cataclysmic variable was reported in E2869 by Guy Hurst: “S. Shurpanov, et. al., Moscow State University, SAI reports on The Astronomer's Telegram 4585 that MASTER- Amur auto-detection system discovered OT source...” (Discovery Image below) Follow up observations were requested.

Courtesy of Moscow State University

I requested an image of the object to be taken with the Schulman telescope in Arizona but also used T11 in New Mexico The T11 image confirmed the CV. The confirmation was published in TA E-Circular 2870. .

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MASTER OT J061017.75+414545.7 Unfiltered image 55’ X37’ taken following notification in TA E2869 of discovery by S. Shurpanov, et. al., Moscow State University. TEL T11 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + f/4.5 focal reducer New Mexico 20th Nov. 2012 at 07h 44m 37s U.T. 300s exposure. Mag. 17.19 Len Adam Monday 19th November 2012 Details of the run on T11 to capture Master OT to save waiting for Schulman image. T11 can reach magnitude 21.5 and the camera is anti-blooming.

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64 Wednesday 21st November 2012 Wednesday 21st November 2012

My previous attempt at imaging M52 in Cassiopeia on 2/11/2012 failed so I used a different telescope to take a monochrome image. Details:

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66 Wednesday 21st November 2012 The sky was fairly clear in Leyland this evening but as darkness fell it was apparent that there was a lot of moisture in the air. Even though not many clouds were around it felt as though it was raining and the external dome surface was saturated with moisture. I did not want to miss the opportunity for a Supernova Patrol however and imaged 38 galaxies in Auriga and 145 galaxies in Perseus. Very aggressive light pollution tonight.

This is the first galaxy in Auriga PGC 16158 30 second exposure

DSS REFERENCE

This is the first galaxy in Perseus NGC 1224 30 second exposure

67 Thursday 22nd November 2012 Thursday 22ndt November 2012

Having been notified in TA E2868 of a potential Supernova discovery by Ron Arbour I used the Sierra Stars 24” telescope in New Mexico to take this 2 minute exposure. This was later confirmed as SN 2012go

This is certainly not an easy one to spot. The galaxy is PGC 214858. A magnified view is shown on the next page.

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69 Saturday 24th November 2012 Saturday 24th November 2012

A new optical transient was reported in T E2870 MASTER OT J064643.02+412059 An image of the area was taken using Telescope T4 which is a 250mm (10”) telescope.

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Saturday 24th November 2012

The arrow shows the position of the OT and the inset shows its presence but not very clearly. The Threshold settings in IRIS were used to make it visible. This is a 10 inch telescope so more aperture is needed. It was decided to use the T11 telescope which has 20” of aperture.

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The 0.51m (20”) telescope in New Mexico was used to take another image of the Optical Transient MASTER OT J064643.02+412059

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72 Sunday 25th November 2012 Sunday 25th November 2012

Another attempt today using T11 – the one yesterday failed . The image below needed to be North aligned to help identify the object. A plate Courtesy of iTelescope.net solution was necessary to determine the exact alignment. (See next page)

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The image link solution showed that the camera lies at an angle of 61 degrees 56 minutes to North. A Field of View indicator was generated to correspond to this position.

Courtesy of Software Bisque

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The MASTER reference image above was used to identify the OT in comparison with my T11 image below which is adjusted to have North up.

The plate solved image The final image is shownN was used in CCDSoft to below. give a photometric E magnitude of 17.1

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MASTER OT J064643.02+412059.1 Unfiltered image 55’ X37’ taken following notification in TA E2870 of discovery by S. Shurpanov, et. al., Moscow State University. TEL T11 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + f/4.5 focal reducer New Mexico 25th Nov. 2012 at 08h 55m 27s U.T. 300s exposure. Mag. 17.1 Len Adam 75 MASTER Telescopes at Kislovodsk from Real Time Video 26 Nov 2012 07:00 U.T.

The confirmation of the MASTER Optical Transient was given in TA E2872:

MASTER OT J064643.02+412059 Further to the notice on TA E-Circular 2870 of the discovery of this optical transient, Len Adam has again confirmed the event on an image secured using the iTelescope.net T11 telescope at New Mexico on 2012 Nov 25 at 08h55mUT at magnitude 17.1. The telescope is a 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + f4.5 local reducer.

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