Saturday, May 4, 2019

Obs-Session Data

Here's some stuff from recent obs-sessions.

First, here's a light curve from the eclipsing binary star HW Viriginis:


The position of HW Vir in the sky seems to be a place where a lot of satellites move.  Here's an example of a single 3s image:


Here's a combined RGB image of open cluster Messier 46, with planetary nebula 2348 in the background.  The color information of the stars and nebula will hopefully tell me a little bit about their situation:


A long exposure (about 450, 3 second images) of the Eskimo Nebula (planetary nebula, NGC 2392):


Here's the same image as above, but stretched to show the faintest stars:


Here's a long exposure (about 450, 3 second images) of the Globular Cluster Messier 5:




Here's a video showing the motion of asteroid (6) Hebe:



... and asteroid (433) Eros: