Earthshine Observing Log - 2005 January 15

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General Information:

Observer: Alla Shumko
Weather: Clear
Seeing: Good
Lunar Phase: -114.7 degree
Sun set: 00:56 UT
Moon rise: 18:33 UT
Moon set: 06:08 UT
Sun rise: 14:58 UT
Camera temperature: -35
BE filter type: NG3 2mm
ES filter type: NG10 2mm
BS exposure: 1700 ms
ES Exposure: 90000 ms
Image sequence: 4BS+ES+DC; FLAT
Image directory: (moon) /images/05jan15/

Observing Notes:




Sample Lunar Images on January 15, 2005

Crescent Earthshine ES side flat


Stddev of the flat: 0.80 (at the mean of 100).


On-line Analysis Result for January 15, 2005

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


Moonshine fitting Stddev.: 0.00774369; airmass absorptivity: -0.0987045
Crescent fitting Stddev.: 0.00491095; airmass absorptivity: -0.0972003
Earthshine fitting Stddev.: 0.0217645; airmass absorptivity: -0.135751

[A*] (from top to bomttom): 1.57178, 1.57312, Stddev: 0.157471, 0.154438; Calc. [A*]: 1.48000


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