Star:
Struve 968
Date & Time:
LT: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, March 8, 2004
UT: 0100 to 0230,
March
9, 2004
Seeing: 5 to
5
<1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>.
Transparency:
7 <1-10
Scale (10 best)>
Location of site:
Northern Kansas City,
Missouri (USA),
94º 30m W,
39º
15m N
980 ft above Mean
Sea Level
Site
classification:
suburban
Conditions:
Sky darkness:
<Limiting magnitude>
Telescope:
Celestron
C-11
Eyepieces:
Magnification:
98x
Rating Scale:
5E
<1 to 5 (1 being outstanding
view, to 5, a dismal
view)
and letter E, M or D (easy, moderate or difficult)> |
I noted colors
of W and
W(?). Viewed at 98x, this poor urchin gets lost in a bleak
field.
OK, OK, it's not that bad-there is a nice little "bowl" of stars that
holds
it. But this is sort of like putting a pair of poppy seeds in a
silver
serving bowl at English Tea Time.
An interesting
"model" of
this system can be built, using a scale of the Sun being the size of an
American baseball (about 3 inches, or 76.2mm, indiameter. The
primary
here would be 7.52 inches (19 cm) in diameter, with the B star coming
in
at 7.57 inches (19.2 cm). So we can picture two balls about the
size
of bowling balls, separated by a mere 3.90 miles (6.3 km)!
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