Do it - Set GLP Telescope to Right Ascension 09h 47m 59s, Declination 13:16:59

cmon astonut. Lets see you debunk this.

That there is really a telescope ......

Just need to click on the "rate this thread" widget and vote.

Does anyone know when Constellation Leo rises?

If this is anything worth looking into, I'm going to check it out at night and try to find Leo. It's nice to view the stars whenever possible anyway.

Mods please pin. We need some answers.

For info

The coordinates of CW Leonis are this:
09 47 57.406 +13 16 43.56
[link to simbad.u-strasbg.fr]
Looks like a match to me.

It's becoming clear to me though that I am going to need to show CW Leo in the near future. I really don't feel like dragging my ass out of bed in the pre-dawn hours to do it tomorrow though.

Last Edited by Dr. Astro on 12/05/2012 09:55 PM

At my location, 11:34. It doesn't transit the meridian until 6:12 am though. Ideal time to image CW Leonis is therefore right before astronomical twilight at 0'dark fucking 30.

Would it be too much to ask if the GLP scope can view in infrared?

Leonis shows up nicely but not as bright as the object to the right of it.

Poor astro has a 24/7 on call demand job he does not even get paid for LOL and bitched at for his work LOL

But when it comes down to wanting answers we all call for him.

Thank you astro

Maybe we could bribe astro to get up at 0 dark 30 with a hot Irish coffee.

Leonis IS the object on the right. You had the coordinates for CW Leo wrong, it's the one on the right. The star on the left at coordinates 09 51 01.98466, +13 03 58.4598 is 23 Leo. It's just a regular star. In visible light it's about magnitude 6.4, but in infrared it's a bit brighter at magnitude 2.4~3.6 depending on the band.

And just to add, THIS is one more reason why you should learn how to process astrophotos so that you don't have to rely on webware like Microsoft WWT:
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
I used PixInsight to process the raw 2MASS data. Of course, that program's not free now, but there are other programs out there and to me it's worth a little cash to be able to handle the data myself.

Oh and before anyone says anything, the blue dot at the center of CW Leonis is there because the central pixels were so over-exposed in the "red" exposure (K band) that they shut off much like how some people end up recording a "black dot" on the sun with their cell phone cameras. The other junk around CW Leonis is lens flaring. The same effects happen with all bright stars in the 2MASS survey.

Last Edited by Dr. Astro on 12/06/2012 12:31 AM

I <3 Dr. Astro :)