Faulkes Telescope Thu 17 September, 2009 11:30 UTC

First viewing by class 7p3 : Error extraordinaire...wrong co-ordinates!

Taken from FT's public images, the declination co-ordinates (equivalent to lines of latitude) were off by about a degree or so, and when the size of the image is only 4 arc mins (....so much smaller) we missed our targets completely! :-(

So, I wonder what's in these images:

Unfortunately, we went by a set of co-ordinates on the website that had been wrongly input by a degree or so. Not much when you are close to the object, but in the sky it's a whole different area of sky!

On top of the co-ordinates being wrong for the objects we looked at, the fire alarm went off in the middle of the half hour observation window, so this was one of those 'put it down to experience' moments.