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After lunch I got a call from three club members which were trying to get
the drivers for the new club's new DMK camera installed on
our club's laptop. But since the laptop is pretty old and
only supports USB 1.1, this was not possible. Therefore I
rushed to the observatory to provide a more recent laptop
for the first-light of our new camera.

The first object we tried was the moon, but
since the seeing was so bad, the images were not good, and
since the same also applied to Saturn, we went fo rlonger
exposures and we moved a little outward in the solar system,
first we took a series of pictures of Ceres, the first and
the last I combined into this animation showing the movement
of Ceres against the background of stars:

We also targeted Comet Lulin, and created the following animation
from 20 individual images:

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