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Fri/Sat, Apr 27/28, 2001

I imaged from Oshawa tonight with the MX9. The transparency was not too bad tonight; temperature range was +8..+2C (session from 21:30 to 05:30). I watched the occultation of Eta Geminorum with my C8 while the MX9 was doing dark frames. The occultation was quite spectacular: one second the star was there, the next it was gone!

I set up the scope very close to the house because of the strong winds. I was afraid my wind break might be blown apart by the strong winds. By 2am the winds had died down. Unfortunately I had to cut my imaging of M94, M20 and M22 short because they were being occulted by the house! But I still got decent shots of them.

M 109* 34 minutes (68 x 30s)
M 94* 20½ minutes (41 x 30s)
M 20* 9 minutes (18 x 30s)
M 22* 12½ minutes (25 x 30s)
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