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The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 186 Wednesday 1st October 2014 Transforming the QX Cas photometry.

DateWednesday, October 1, 2014 at 7:42PM

Back to the variable star QX Cas in the open cluster NGC 7790 from Monday. I now need to transform Monday's result. For that I need to look also at the image taken through a B filter.

 Here are the results

So using these results and the previous V filter values from Monday in an Excel spreadsheet 

 

I get the transformed value of V = 10.201

The Variable Star Reference Index has the following data concerning QX Cas

My tests this week of photometry of variable stars are based on single images, I need to use multiple images in practice for values that would be submitted to the AAVSO or the BAA Variable Star Section. I also need to ensure comprehensive reduction and a careful choice of comparison stars.

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