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XCOV30 update
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I am off to sleep.

Willie
I was plotting relative values for all of the stars, so any variation in one would affect the others. Here is a new plot with just the target plotted as a relative value, the comparisons are plotted as Source-background. It shows that the comps are not varying. This is a better plotcfg for this type run.

Willie
According to this AAVSO finder chart, those should be good comparisons.

Willie
Good question, Dick. I noticed that but didn’t try to resolve it.

I thought it was because I let them get too close to the edge of the frame or that it was due to variation in the background. Sometimes when you have faint comps and there is significant variation in the background (like when the moon was coming up and the background brightened significantly) it affects the fainter ones more dramatically than the brighter ones. That will cause one to increase and the other to decrease the same amount.

But perhaps the first 2 do do vary over a longer time frame. Later today, I will look at it using different comps and see if it is any different.

Willie


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Here is the field of view showing the comparisons as an attachment so it can be viewed at higher resolution.
Here is the light curve as an attachment so it can be viewed at higher resolution.
The scope was available again last night and so was I, so I imaged NGC1501.  I was able to capture 999 frames of N1501 at 30 sec integration with the BG40 filter.

Willie






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