Struve 2371 

Richard Harshaw 
Star: Struve 2371 
Date & Time: 6 July, 2001, 03:00 to 04:55, UT
Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Transparency: 6-7/10 ,variable, due to high hazy clouds 
Location of site: Northern Kansas City, Missouri. 39º 15' N, 94º 30' W, 980 ft above Mean Sea Level
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness:  <Limiting magnitude>
Telescope: Celestron C-11
Eyepieces: 25mm Plossl 
Magnification: 112x
Position:  1842+2739 
Magnitudes:  9.6 (A0), 9.9 
Sep/PA's:   10= / 56= 
Year of this measurement:  1964 
Distance (light years):  270 
Luminosity (in suns):  1.4 
Colors noted:  bW, W 

Comments:  It is a nicely split pair, but overpowered by a 9m star NNW.  It is part of a neat little pentagram similar in shape to a baseball "home plate." 
First measure:  9.6" @ 56. 
The stars have different proper motions. 
Rating:  3 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 
William Schart 
Star: Struve 2371 
Date & Time: July/9/01 0500 to 0635 UT
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Location of site: Killeen, TX, USA
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude>
Temperature: In the 80's F (30's C). Slight breeze. 
Telescope: Celestar 8" SCT
Eyepieces:  25mm, 17mm, 10mm
Magnification: 80x, 120x, 200x
A dim pair, both close to mag 10 and equal; but fairly wide spread. Easily split at low power. too faint to detect color.

 


 
John M. Ryan 
Star: Struve 2371 
Date & Time: 17 July 2001 ( 22:30 UT ).
Seeing: 6+ <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Location of site: Barreras, Salamanca, Spain.
Site classification: Rural,Suburban.
Conditions: no moon, fairly dry but with gusts of wind.
Sky darkness: 5+, some light due to street lights in the village. <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: Meade 7" Mak Cas mounted on a Losmandy GM8. 
Eyepieces: 12mm plossl
Magnification: 223X
Harshaw Scale: 2 <1-5; 1 best>
Nice split at 223X. This double had a halo of stars above the double making for a nice view in the eyepiece. Easy to note the equality of magintudes in the double. Both white

 
Luis Argüelles
Star: Struve 2371
Date & Time: 21st, July, 2001. 21:00 – 23:05UT
Seeing: 7-8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 3-4 <0:worst -10:best >
Location of site: Quintueles, Gijón, Spain.  43º 32N, 5º 55W. Altitude: 20 m.
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 3.0 - 3.5 <Limiting magnitude> 
Temperature: about 15º C
Conditions: A lot of haze and moisture. Seeing is rather good, but haze actuates like a light diffusor and that makes difficult observe stars fainter that 10
magnitude.
Humidity: about 90%
Telescope: Vixen 102 4" achromatic refractor
Eyepieces: 35, 10 and 5mm Baader-Planetarium Eudiascopics
Magnification: 100x
Harschaw Scale: 3 <From 1 to 5. 1 = Great, 5 = poor interest>
Not a lot of effort to split, although every component is about magnitude 10, and this puts this double in the limit of this night's observing conditions. Anyway, the fact of not having practically difference of magnitude helps a lot. At first I need averted vision to split this double, but after a few moments, the split is clear with direct vision.

 
Jim Jones 
Star: Struve 2371
Date & Time: 07/26/01 0635 UTC
Seeing: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Location of site: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 4.0 <Limiting magnitude> 
Sky:  New Moon + 6 days.
Telescope: 8" LX50
Eyepieces: 42mm Ultima, 18mm Radian
Magnification: 47x, 112x
Est PA without inst.....045d
No observable color.
Clean split at 47x and 112x.

Double anchors the southern corner of a four star asterism shaped roughly like the square of Hercules. The primary and companion were almost of equal
brightness.  However it is still readily apparent which star is the primary.
 
 

 


 
Philippe Dejocas
Star: Struve 2371
Date & Time: July 28 2001
Seeing: 6.5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Location of site: Canada
Site classification: Suburban
Conditions: Clean skies and warm temperatures.
Sky darkness: 4.5 <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: 6inch/f5 newt
Magnification: 40x
 

 

Easy at 40x, but the field is what really caught my eye and it got sketched.

 
 
 

 

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