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Dr Paul Leyland
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Although UZ Boo is still well placed in the sky from La Palma the sky itself has been appalling and it was not worth opening the observatory between 08-09 and 08-13 inclusive. Thick Saharan dust and high winds which create turbulence and bad seeing. Even last night A 15-pixel (8.75″) radius aperture was needed to include the bloated stars and the moonlit dust made the sky background so high that a 10 minute exposure was used to get adequate SNR. Such a time would generally let me get useful results for a target fainter than V=15.

Anyway, UZ Boo was measured at V=12.35 on 2024-08-08 and 12.75 on 2024-08-14.