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Kiochi Itagaki has discovered tonight a type II supernova SN 2023ixf in M101 currently at mag 14.9
Thanks for the heads-up Robin. I wish I’d seen that last night as I was imaging for photometry from 10:30 until 03:00 here with lovely skies! Looks clear again tonight…
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Ian.Can your driver be used under EKOS?
Perhaps we could discuss this in greater detail by email rather than clogging up the BAA fora.
I know nothing of this EKOS of which you speak! Yes, let’s talk offline…
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Ian.At the moment domes with a Velleman controller, mine included, can use only the LesveDome ASCOM controller. The problems with LesveDome is that the source code is unavailable, it is Windows only, and is ASCOM instead of the much more portable INDI.
I’ve written my own Dome controller using the ASCOM Alpaca standard. My code runs on a Raspberry Pi. The Alpaca initiative is fully portable as it uses a JSON/REST API and therefore is no longer Windows COM specific.
Ah.
When I add a new star to my program…
Thanks Paul,
I call the AAVSO API to get me the VS data and the candidate comparison stars in a requested mag. range and chart width. I use the B-V from SIMBAD to give me a guide to any major differences that there might be in the B-V values of the comparison stars. It’s more of a sanity check – sometime there aren’t enough good choices to throw any out! My code then builds this info into my master variable star csv file which is read by my automated photometry routines (Python and AstroArt8). The API also returns a URI with the chart which I stream down and save as an image file. The BAA and AAVSO upload files are automatically generated.
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Ian.Out of interest, what SIMBAD/VIZIER data do you use? For my purposes all that is required is the magnitudes and the coordinates, all of which is provided in a single download from AAVSO.
I use it to get the B-V of the target star. I couldn’t find that in the AAVSO data.
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Ian.Personally I like the AAVSO charts and lists of comparison stars because it’s easy to query via my Python code via the AAVSO API. I combine that with SIMBAD/VIZIER data to get other parameters of the target star and I can then create a good list comparison stars for ensemble photometry. I just live with the chart ID warning when I upload to the BAA database.
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Ian.Thanks Eric and Paul,
With the amazing Photometric and Spectrophotometric colour calibration processes in PixInsight these days I’m pretty sure it will all work out fine.
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Ian.Hi all,
There has been quite a healthy discussion on this in the AAVSO forums and it seems that the answer is yes – there should be no problems doing this.
I’d still be interested in any experiences on this.
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Ian.It’s faded since yesterday – see attached.
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Thanks Robin,
A great setup and some nice results!
On a less expensive note, I’m just about to upgrade my system at PixelSkies in Spain to a C11 Edge HD with RVB photometric filters (from a 104mm APO I have at present). No spectrograph though!
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Ian.Here are both V and I magnitudes.
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Hi all,Clear last night. Managed to get a few exposures early on. Average mag. over 8 x 20 second exposures was 8.133 +/- 0.030. This was with no filter.
Equipment: C9.25 @ f/. SX TRIUS 694 Pro CCD, Calibrated with Bias, Flats and Darks. Photometry processing in AstroArt 7.
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Ian.
