Struve 70

 
Carol Lakomiak
Star: Struve 70
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= 6.27 white
B=9.70 slight ruddiness
Just below a small line of stars, this double was split at 63x.
 
 






 

 
 
Luis Argüelles
Star: Struve 70
Date: 28, July, 2003 , 23:45 -> 2:45 local time
Location of Site: Sena de Luna, Spain
42.55N, 05.57W
Seeing: 6/7 <1-10 Seeing scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 6 -> 5 <1-10 scale (10 best)>
Other conditions: No Moon. 
Temperature:16ºC
Altitude: 1,200 mts (3,940 ft)
Site classification: Rural
Sky darkness: about 5.5
Telescope: Takahashi FS-102
Mount: Vixen GP + Skysensor 2000
Eyepieces: 9mm Nagler, 5mm and 3.8mm Eudiascopics
Diagonal: Zeiss prism diagonal
Magnifications: 91x, 164x, 215x
 
It’s relatively easy to split with the 9mm Nagler. Anyway, since transparency is not very good, the secondary is a bit difficult to see. In fact I use averted vision at first to observe it, but after some time, it’s easy to see the secondary directly, although it comes and goes. Primary seems to be white-yellow. No color perceived for the secondary. Ana calls it a “birria”, that is, a 5 on the HS scale.
   

   
   
  
   
    


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