Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei - 06/03/2013

VAO (Vazquez Astronomical Observatory) - 06/03/13

Sky conditions: CLEAR and DARK
Telescope: Meade 12"
Focal Reducer: f/6.3
Camera: QSI 632wsg - KAF3200ME
Guiding: Starlight Xpress Loadstar - ICX429AL
Twilight V Flats
Filter: Johnson/Cousins V

* Note: All stellar profiles are in counts in the vertical and pixels in the horizontal axis. Images are cropped with the target at the center.

NGC 6418 - 15x120s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 193 +/- 1.67
Inst. magnitude: 5.430 +/- 0.031

PGC 61965 - 10x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 834 +/- 4.83
Inst. magnitude: 4.089 +/- 0.017


MRK 876 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 463 +/- 6.22
Inst. magnitude: 3.749 +/- 0.011


















MRK 885 - 17x120s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 119 +/- 1.33
Inst. magnitude: 5.621 +/- 0.032

MRK 507 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 372 +/- 3.36
Inst. magnitude: 4.214 +/- 0.014


















KAZ 163 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 244 +/- 2.18
Inst. magnitude: 5.034 +/- 0.024




KAZ 102 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 237 +/- 2.20
Inst. magnitude: 5.724 +/- 0.043




















3c390.3 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 189 +/- 1.38
Inst. magnitude: 4.884 +/- 0.020




AKN 524 - 5x300s - median combined
    Sky background mean counts: 112 +/- 1.08
    Inst. magnitude: 5.727 +/- 0.034



   


































IRAS 17552+6209 - 5x300s - median combined
Sky background mean counts: 226 +/- 2.46
Inst. magnitude: 5.967 +/- 0.052





1 comment:

  1. This ties very close to what I'm going to do, starting tomorrow, with the research position I just got under Dr. Stefi Baum. I'm going to take VLA data and learn how to overlay it on HST data (from what I understand as of yet) with IDL, and I have a lot of material on (partially) AGN's and the jets coming from galaxy centers. I'm very eager to know what portion of the sky it is so I can look it up in other catalogs as well, compare images and stuff.

    Great post!
    Brandon Doyle

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