Earthshine Observing Log - 2004 March 12

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General Information:

Observer: Pilar Montañés Rodriguez
Weather: Hazy
Seeing: Bad
Lunar Phase: 70.6 degree
Sun set: 01:49 UT
Moon rise: 07:27 UT
Moon set: 17:36 UT
Sun rise: 14:06 UT
Camera temperature: -35
BE filter type: NG3 2mm
ES filter type: NG10 2mm
BS exposure: 1400 ms
ES Exposure: 30000 - 20000 ms
Image sequence: 4BS+ES+DC; FLAT
Image directory: (moon) /images/04mar12/

Observing Notes:

Bright background, not good ES data.



Sample Lunar Images on March 12, 2004

Crescent Earthshine ES side flat


Stddev of the flat: 0.00 (at the mean of 100).


On-line Analysis Result for March 12, 2004

Intensity vs. time Intensity vs. airmass [A*]


Moonshine fitting Stddev.: 0.00993852; airmass absorptivity: -0.153750
Crescent fitting Stddev.: 0.00488218; airmass absorptivity: -0.147816
Earthshine fitting Stddev.: 0.0591505; airmass absorptivity: -0.168438

[A*] (from top to bomttom): 0.609811, 0.612539, Stddev: 0.505110, 0.503755; Calc. [A*]: 1.04953


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