Struve 2430


Richard Harshaw 
Star: Struve 2430 
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, 9mm Lanthanum 
Magnification: 112x, 311x
Position:  1859+2936 
Magnitudes:  9.07 (G0), 9.18 
Sep/PA's:   1.6- / 6+ 
Year of this measurement:  1999 
Colors noted:  W, O? 

Comments:  Observed at 112x, where duplicity was suspected due to a peanut shape of the star.  At 311x, the split was wonderful and easily held.  This is a strange contrast to Hussey 936, which is theoretically a little wider, of nearly the same magnitude, but much more difficult to split. 
Rating:  3 
 
 
 

 


 
William Schart 
Star: Struve 2430 
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 very tight pair. I got elongation buy I cannot claim a clean split,  even at high power. Occasionally I thought maybe I had it at high power, but I was really not sure.

 


 
Bob Hogeveen 
Star: Struve 2430 
Date & Time: 26 July, 2001, 00:00
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Location of site: Annen, The Netherlands - 53N, 6E
Site classification: Village backyard
Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: Celestron C-11
Eyepieces: Ultima 30mm , LV 15mm
Magnification: 187x, 187x
Harshaw Scale: 2 <1-5; 1 best>
At 93x a very tiny but well separated double. The star-images were small and sharp, which made the separation clearly visible. The pair sits in a beautiful rich field (as most of the Lyra doubles...). There is a striking asterism along the NE-edge of the field (at 93x), a long string of mag. 10 to 11.5 stars with the two brightest stars at the top, orientated at a right angle to the string. It looks like a winding serpent with two fiery eyes.
Both stars are white

 
Philippe Dejocas
Star: Struve 2430 
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: 165x, 225x

 

Here 165x paid off giving me a N/S elongation, but 225x did not do the job (I got this one on the second run)
 
 
 
 

 


 
Philippe Dejocas
Star: Struve 2430 
Date & Time: August 8 2001 
Seeing: 7.5 <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: 225x

 

Tackled and resolved fully this time, at 225x.

 
 
 

 


 
Otto Piechowski
Star: Struve 2430 
Date & Time: 9 PM EDT Saturday, August 18 to 2 AM, Sunday, August 19
Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Location of site: Lexington, KY, USA 
Site classification: Urban area
Sky darkness: 4.5 (Zenith Unaided) <Limiting magnitude>
Conditions: Clear, a bit of haze, still, c. 65 degrees F, very slight breeze
Telescope: 150 mm Maksutov Cassegrain
(Intes standard MK 67) 
Eyepieces:  30 mm ?, 16 mm Rini, 11.4 mm Rini, 7 mm and 4 mm celestron orthos, 5 mm University Optics ortho.
Magnification: 158x, 450x
Seen with averted vision at 450X (4mm) and at 158 X (11.4mm)
 
 

 

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