Observations of Proxima Centauri 
UTC 2020-04-23
University of Southern Queensland Mount Kent Observatory
University of Louisville CDK700S
 
SITELAT = -27.797861 -> -27:47:52.300     
SITELONG =  151.855417 -> 151:51:19.501  (+ to the east)

Observer: Ian Waite
Processing: John Kielkopf
Contact:  jkielkopf@gmail.com or john.kielkopf@louisville.edu

All images:

Planewave CDK700 0.7 corrected Dall-Kirkham
Apogee U16 4096x4096 9 micron pixel CCD
Plate scale 0.394 arcsec/pixel
FITS files with with headers and full documentation in 32-bit floating point 
GPS times with subsecond error
Bias and dark corrected and not flat-fielded
Sloan filters 
Images cropped to 3000x3000 centered on Proxima CentauriAstrometry added in WCS headers using Astrometry.net

Files:

V645Cen_g_00046_dw.fits   2020-04-23T10:47:50.211 Sloan g' 128 second exposure 
V645Cen_r_00039_dw.fits   2020-04-23T10:32:39.391 Sloan r'  32 second exposure 
V645Cen_r_00058_dw.fits   2020-04-23T11:35:46.523 Sloan r' 128 second exposure
V645Cen_i_00074_dw.fits   2020-04-23T12:10:38.588 Sloan i' 128 second exposure

V645Cen_r_00058_dc_ids.png 
  Proxima Centauri and Tycho catalog stars labeled and N-E arrows added

proxcen_rgb_irg_sqrt_nsew_20200423.png  
  RGB representation mapping Sloan i'->R, Sloan r'->G, Sloan g'->B
  Square root stretch