| Richard Harshaw | ||||
| Star: Struve 157 (ADS 1404)
Location of site: Northern Kansas City, Missouri (USA) 94d 30m west longitude, 39d 15m north latitude 980 ft above Mean Sea Level Date of observations (UT): Nov 2, 2000 at 2330 Site classification: suburban Sky conditions: seeing-- 8 out of 10 (at times, approaching 9) transparency-- 7 out of 10 (high, thin and spotty clouds, taking perhaps 1magnitude from the starlight) limiting visual magnitude-- 4.0 mag Telescope: Celestron C-8 Eyepiece: 20mm, 104x |
Year of first measurement: AC 1832, 12.4 / 115;
AD 1905, 54 / 282
Year of last measurement: 1991 Distance (light years): 550 Luminosity (in suns): 21 Eyepiece and magnification: 20mm, 104x Colors noted: W, W and undetermined. The 7.8 mag star SAO 54974 lies just to the SSE. I rated the pair a 4. (There is also a B star, 10.3 mag, at 0.7" / 207, also listed as Bur 736, but I could not detect it tonight.) |
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