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Observer: Antonio Jose Cidadao
Location: Oeiras, Portugal
Date: March 27, 1996 21:30-22:00 UT
Notes: Tricolour (RGB) images Comet 1996B2; total of 12 images (4x3; first
picture)
or 30 images (10x3; second picture) of 30 sec. each in
"track-and-accumulate"
mode (tracking was performed on the comet nucleus).
The first image was log processed.
Images were obtained with a 50mm f/1.4 lens and plain photographic
RGB filters (no IR-blocking filter was used).
The ST6 CCD camera was piggy-back mounted on a LX200 telescope.
Member of A.P.A.A. (Associacao Portuguesa de Astronomos Amadores)
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FIRST IMAGE
Date: 03/27/96 (red exposure beginning at 21h30min UT)
(green exposure beginning at 21h36min UT)
(blue exposure beninning at 21h42min UT)
SECOND IMAGE
Date: 03/27/96 (red exposure beginning at 22h00min UT)
(green exposure beginning at 22h12min UT)
(blue exposure beninning at 21h48min UT)
Site: Oeiras, Portugal ("roof-top" observatory)
Image Proc. Software: CCDOPS; PhotoShop
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Antonio Jose Cidadao
Rua D. Antonio Luis de Menezes, No9, 3A, phone: +351-1-4412192
S. Juliao da Barra, Oeiras,
2780 Oeiras
PORTUGAL e-mail: a.cidadao@telepac.pt
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