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| Star:
Struve 971 in Canis Majoris
Date & Time: 26 Feb 2002, 9:30pm local Seeing: 3 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Silverdale Wa, USA 47N,123W Site classification: deep burbs Sky darkness: 3, full moon <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 17 inch Dob, the Bigdog Eyepiece: Paracorr, 19mm Televue Wide field, 9mm Meade MA Magnification: 122x, 258x |
Noticed a third member to
the south of the primary, blue-white in color. WDS lists this component
as B 2611 at 166 deg, 85 sec. The offending double was hard to crack in
3/10 air, but at 258x the star occasionally changed from a dinner plate
sized blur to an elongated streak and sometimes a figure 8. Both components
appear yellow, WDS lists F6,7V as spectral class. Tried to image the pair
but only got AB-C as the air was too poor.
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