Minor Planet 2 Pallas Imaged from Penn Valley
                             Dick Steinberg
                                8/02/24

GIF Image - http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~steinberg/astro4/2%20Pallas.gif

Fits header (with detailed exposure info) -
http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~steinberg/astro4/fits header.txt

Image from Lowell Observatory Asteroid tracker (the green circle is
predicted Pallas location (perfect agreement); the bright star is QY
Serpentis, mag 5.4)
http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~steinberg/astro4/Screen%20Shot%2008-02-24.jpg

OBSERVING CONDITIONS: Hazy, smoky, light polluted. Only mag 2
stars visible to naked eye.

TELESCOPE:
Celestron C8 SCT (native FL=2032mm), reduced to f/6.67 or 1355 mm.

MOUNT:
Orion SkyView Pro on rear deck in Penn Valley (unguided 30-sec subs).

IMAGING DEVICE:
Orion Parsec cooled CCD camera with Kodak 8300M chip; 3326x2504 pixels
each 5.4 x 5.4 microns; 8.3 million total pixels; 22.5 mm diagonal; FOV
45x34 arc-min; image scale 0.82 arc-sec/pixel.

IMAGE ACQUISITION & PROCESSING: MaxIm DL v5 and 6