110 Hercules 

Penny Fisher
Star: 110 Her 
Date & Time: 5/26/00, 10 p.m. EDT 
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>  
Transparency: 5 
Location of site:  Englishtown NJ, 40.25  N  74.333 W  
Site classification: Suburban  
Sky darkness: ??  <Limiting magnitude>  
Telescope: 8 inch Dob  
Magnification: 47x (26 mm) 
  

 

Viewed this star as a primary with a very dim faint companion (only one seen). The separation was quite close but resolveable. Colors were primary orange and the secondary a very dim blue. 
 
 
 
 
Richard Harshaw
Star: 110 Her 
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): 29 May, 2000; 0330 hours 
Site classification: suburban 
Sky conditions
Seeing--  8 out of 10 (long periods of 10!!) 
Transparency-- 8  out of 10 
Limiting visual magnitude-- 4.5 
Telescope: Celestron C-8 
Eyepiece: 10mm Ortho (211x) 
 
 
Magnitudes:  4.2 (F6V), 12.9, 10.9 
Sep/PA's:  AB = 48/73, AC = 70/62 (both seps are increasing and both 
PAs are decreasing) 
Year of last measurement:  1988 
Distance (light years):  62 
Luminosity (in suns):  6.3 
 

A diffraction mask was a surprising help here as it "cleaned up" the image of A a great deal, turning a somewhat rough image into a sharp Airy disk and two diffraction rings with 6 perfect spikes.  (I have often noted how a diffraction mask sharply improves bright star image quality and can't help but wonder if the central restriction caused by the SCT's secondary mirror doesn't extract a higher price in image quality than most SCT's owners would concede.) 

I had to nudge A to just off the edge of the field to let B pop out, even with the mask.  C was much easier. 

Colors of White, ??, and White. 
 

 
 
John M. Ryan
Star: 110 Her 
Date of Observation: 5/30/00 22:30UT   
Location of Observation: Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain 
40º 36' N, 6º 32'W, Elev. 800 Meters 
Seeing: 4 to 5 (1 - 10, 10 best) 
Transparency: 6 to 7. 
Limiting Mag. (naked eye): 4 
Site classification: Urban 
Instrument: Meade 8"SCT 
Magnification: 167X
Separation (Clear or Touching):Clear (Easily split brighter two components). 
Magnitude Comment: Primary and 10.9 component in accordance with data. Thought I could see 12.9 mag with averted vision between the two but was not sure. 
 
Color comment: Bluish primary white component 
General Comment On a nite of poor seeing these dim secondary components are hard to find and see. 

 

 
 
Eddy O'Connor
Star: 110 Her
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 29th 2000
10 -11p.m local; UT +10
Seeing: 5-6/10 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> 
Transparency: 7/10
Temperature: 7ºC, Light breeze.
Location of Site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia, Long.150.38 degrees; South 34.52. 
Site Classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: Northern sky to mag. 4.5; Southern to
5.5 <Limiting magnitude> 
Instrument: 8"  F9 Dobsonian 
Magnification: 72x (25mm K)
 
This star is easily located in the centre of a wide triangle of mag. 4.5 stars. The primary has a marked greenish hue and the wide 10.9 and 12.9mag. dim companions are nicely clustered close together.