| Bob Hogeveen | ||||
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Sh 191
Date & Time: May 10 2001 Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Location of site: Annen, The Netherlands (53ºN, 6ºE) Site classification: Village backyard Sky darkness: 4.5 (UMI) <Limiting magnitude> Sky : Hazy, some thin clouds Telescope: Celestron C11 (11" f/10 SCT) Magnification: 200x Harschaw's Scale: 2 <1 to 5> |
Unexpected a nice, I would
almost say funny, double. This due to some more stars in the field : The
double which is wide an bright at 70x and 140x with my CG11 is positioned
at the end of a small horizontal, bit crooked, string of 4 mag 11 to 12
stars. The double itself has a vertical orientation (of course for the
moment of observation). The impression it gave me was of a little snake
with two fierce, flaming eyes.
While looking at it I noticed a patch of fuzziness just above the little snake, and indeed a galaxy (NGC5820) is situated there. All in all a pretty nice field. With my 8cm f5.6 finder Sh 191 also shows well, but the body of the snake is almost invisible (as is the galaxy).
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| Tim Leese | ||||
| Star:
Sh 191
Date & Time: 12 May 2001 ( 22:40 UT ) Seeing: 5-6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Location of site: Cheshire. UK 53° 15' N -2º 33' W Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 4.3 (UMi) <Limiting magnitude> Conditions: Nice clear night, looking good. Telescope: 200mm f/6 Newtonian mounted over a Vixen GP mount (manual slow motion). Eyepieces: 18mm Orthoscopic, CMG, X3.35 Barlow. Magnification: X67, X322 |
I was drawn to this double
star from Bob's description posted previously.
Using X67 I found a very nice wide pair of what appeared to be blue/white stars. I could just make out the snake of stars leading to the double but I couldn't detect the faint fuzzy as described. Returning later when Bootes had moved into darker sky I though I observed the faintest glimpse, using averted vision, of a few photons from a patch of light to the west of the double star. I wouldn't like to put my life savings on this though. Using the CMG at X322 an average of 3 measures gave a position angle of 343deg and a separation of 40.6sec. Very difficult to measure under the inconsistent seeing conditions.
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| Ilario Melandri | ||||
| Star:
Sh 191
Date & Time: 26 May 2001, 19.32 – 21:08 UTC Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Location of site: S.Romualdo, Ravenna, Italy. Elevation: 0 m Site classification: rural Temperature: +19ºC -> +16ºC Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 150mm f/15 achromatic refractor (lens by Romano Zen, Venice) Eyepieces: Clave Plossl 16 mm Magnification: 140x |
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| William Schart | ||||
| Star:
Sh 191
Date & Time: 29th, May, 2001, 11:20 to 11:40 pm CDT (2001.05.30 0420 to 0440 UT). Seeing: <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Location of site: Killeen, TX, USA Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 2.5-3 <Limiting magnitude> Conditions: Windy Telescope: Celestron 8" SCT Eyepieces: 25mm EP Magnification: 80x
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A wide spaced pair,mag 7
and 7.5. The moon
rather drowned out the companion, but I was able to see it. I did not attempt any measurements tonight - I don't think that it would have been possible to get any reliable ones due to the conditions. Ambience: May 29 was pretty
clear. I tried the technique of fooling those Commanche gods by waiting
until good and dark to set up. Which seemed to work. Got a good alignment.
The first quarter moon was near our choosen constellation, which could
be a problem and it was rather windy. Since I didn't start until after
11:00, there were few if any porch lights on to interfer. No animals.
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