Walter's LogBook
	Wed/Thu, July 9/10, 2002

Temperature was +15C to +13C, with fairly strong breezes throughout the night. I had trouble with polar alignment using Vega as the low-dec star, but then switched to Altair and got aligned quickly without further trouble.

There were a few mosquitos tonight because I set up in the middle of the lawn instead of next to the asphalt. I won't do that again unless the nights get a lot colder!

A few times I noticed an extra Milky Way in the sky as a narrow strip of cloud spanning the whole sky went by from north to south. Other than that it was clear all night.

I imaged with the MX9 given the shortness of the night and the troublesome breezes blowing. SN2002dp has faded noticeably during the last fortnight or so.

NGC 6822	8½ minutes (17 x 30s)
Scope: 10" f/6.3 LX200 Camera: MX916 binned 2x2 (23.2x22.4u pixels), then squared. Barnard's Dwarf Galaxy in Sagittarius -- very faint!

NGC 6960	4 minutes (4 x 60s)
Scope: 10" f/6.3 LX200 Camera: MX916 binned 2x2 (23.2x22.4u pixels), then squared. Part of the Veil Nebula complex -- needs a mosaic to get it all!

NGC 7063	5 minutes (10 x 30s)
Scope: 10" f/6.3 LX200 Camera: MX916 binned 2x2 (23.2x22.4u pixels), then squared. A very boring open cluster!

NGC 7217	4½ minutes (9 x 30s)
Scope: 10" f/6.3 LX200 Camera: MX916 binned 2x2 (23.2x22.4u pixels), then squared.