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Last night me and Steve went to the University Observatory to try and get some images of an exoplanet which is orbiting around HD209458. This is not scientifically that interesting as it has done before, apart from on a personal level, but at the least we thought we could update the timings of when it occurred. There were a few problems, the major one being the inaccuracies of previous measurements so we did not know when it was going to happen at all well. The transit of the planet across the star actually takes 3hours. We were at the observatory from about 7pm and night till 6am this morning, guess what I am shattered! It was fun but we did take over 500 images of the same two stars, the one in question and a comparison one. All I can say is I am glad we managed to get it to do a sequence of images at a time (we did five at a time every five minutes!). After we had finished that we had a quick look at some other objects, unfortunately without filters we could not observe the brighter objects, such as the Moon, Venus and Saturn. We did not have sufficient time to think about what else we could observe as the twilight was rapidly approaching so we had a quick stab at M39, an open cluster in Cygnus, it is far from the nicest object to observe as it is quite a loose cluster but we thought it would be better than nothing and was one of the best object available to us. Here is the unprocessed image:

I will try and do some work on it over the next few days - such as removing bias' etc and see what we can get.