| Carol Lakomiak | ||||
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Struve 7
Date & Time: 5th, July, 2003 Seeing: 4-6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: 4/10 to 8/10 ...varying Location of site: Suburban Site classification: USA, 45º Latitude Temperature: Sky darkness: 5/10 (Thompson Scale) Conditions: Telescope: Meade 8" f/10 LX-10 (Snoopy ) Eyepieces: 32mm, 26mm, 13.8mm, 9mm, 5mm Magnification: 63x, 78x, 147x, 226x, 406x |
A=8.02 white
B=8.53 white After locking the Dec and RA, a satellite whipped through the 63x view... I love when that happens! This double is the center of three stars, the upper left of which is in a tiny 'keystone' asterism. After locating the field with 63x, I needed to kick up to 147x to detect a slight oval-ness. 226x showed a grey split
in 'thinner' moments of another band of wispy
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| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star:
Struve 7
Date & Time: 4 and 5 Sep 2003 11pm to midnight Seeing: strange 5-7/10 but slow blurring Transparency: Fair Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Site classification: suburb-rural Conditions: pleasant temps no wind Sky darkness: 5.4 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron C8 Eyepieces: Video camera DX8263SL Magnification: 3x barlow app 1000x |
Finally
got to small numbers! Close pair and difficult in the
variable seeing conditions. Pastel colors, the primary tending to yellow and the secondary to blue, but mainly white. Measurement, somewhat poor, 1.13 sec at 205.3 deg PA.
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