Vern’s Weblog

Fragment B as brightened signficantly in the last few days and now is brighter than the main component, fragment C. It is now moving quite rapidly — too fast to stack even 30 seconds of images without bluring stars a lot. It was just barely visible in the telrad. Equipment was a Celestron Nexstar11 telescope, Meade F3.3 focal reducer, and Astrovid Stellacam2 video camera. Weather conditions clear, no wind, transparency excellent, and turbulence good (6/10).

I created a couple movies with MS MovieMaker, a 320×240 (617 K-Byte) and a 640×480 1.7 M-Byte version.

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