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Sun/Mon, May 16/17, 2004

I did my first imaging with the SXV-H9C tonight and got over 1GB of images. Autoguiding would cut down on drastically on the accumulation of data, so that is looking more urgent now! A bat flew by me as I was on my way to the dome to take the cap off the scope after doing dark frames.

Comet Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)* 19½ minutes (39 x 30s)
Galaxy NGC 5907* 100 minutes (100 x 60s)
Globular M 13* 4½ minutes (9 x 30s)
Planetary Nebula M 57* 6 minutes (12 x 30s)
Nebula M 17* 16½ minutes (33 x 30s)
Comet Comet C/2003 K4 (LINEAR)* 18½ minutes (37 x 30s)
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TCF-S temperature readings:
+ 14.7 22:00
+ 13.6 23:30
+ 12.6 00:45
+ 10.8 02:15
+ 10.0 03:30