Gamma Leporis

 
Bob Hogeveen 
Star: Gamma Leporis
Date & Time: January 4, 2003 (23.00) 
Seeing: 6  <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best>
Transparency: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Location of site: Annen, The Netherlands,
53N, 6E 
Site classification: Village backyard 
Conditions: No clouds, no wind, temp -7° C
Sky darkness:  5<Limiting magnitude> 
Moon: No
Telescope: C11 - 11" F/10 SCT, 
GS80 - 80mm f/6 refractor
Eyepieces: 40mm Pentax SMC XL,
30mm Ultima, 20mm TV plossl,
10mm plossl
Magnification: 16x (GS80 + 30mm), 
70x, 140x, 280x
Harshaw Scale: 3 for CG11, 2 for GS80  <1-5; 1 best> 
   		 Another nice show for small scopes. Easy to see with the GS80 @ 16x. Nice colors show up: yellow and light-orange. Of course the C11 at low power (70x) shows the colors much better. Unfortunately this one is really too wide: 94".

Quite rightly that this pair is in the 33-bino project. Maybe difficult for northern observers like me, but must be a treat for bino-observations at more southern latitudes.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
Steve Bodin 
Star: Gamma Leporis
Date & Time: 4 Jan 2003
8pm to 11:30 pm local
Seeing: 3  <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Transparency: Fair
Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA
47N 123W
Site classification: suburb-rural
Conditions: warm for winter 40-45F, some light wind
Sky darkness: 5.6 <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: Celestron C8
Eyepieces: 24mm konig, 18 mm UO
Additional: PC164C video camera
Magnification: 80x, 111x, 333x video at pf, 1000x at 3x		 Very nice, easy in the finder! Yellow or yellow-white primary and secondary similar. Measurement: 97.21 sec at 350.9 deg PA.





 

 
Eddy O’Connor 
Star: Gamma Leporis
Date & Time: January 7th 2003
9p.m -10.30p.m. local; UT +9
Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency:  6<1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Location of site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia
Long.150º.38 ; Dec. S 34º.52
Site classification: Suburban
Temperature. 23ºC 
Sky darkness:  <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: 16" Newt. F5.1
Eyepieces: 10mm Plossl, 18mm Ultima Celestron, 32 mm Teleview Plossl. 
Additional: 
Hershaw Scale: 1 <1-5 (1 best)>		 This is the prize of the night and worth repeated visits. In the finderscope the Mag. 3.6 primary is easily split from its 96.8" component of mag. 6.1.

Comments: A low power this is a stunning stellar triplet. The primary is Yellowish green, the second component is Yellowish orange while a dimmer Deep blue star completes a gentle curve of stars with the first two. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
Patrick Thompson 
Star: Gamma Leporis
Date & Time: 11th Jan 2003, 22:10
Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Location of site: West Wickham, Kent, UK,
51°23' N 0°0'E
Site classification: Suburban garden
Moon: 61% waxing gibbous
Sky darkness: 3.5  <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: 8" Meade LX-90 SCT f/10
Eyepieces: 18mm Televue Radian,
13.8mm Meade SWA,
12mm Meade Astrometric,
 8.8mm Meade UWA
Magnification: 115x, 145x, 170x, 230x
(280x, 370x, 425x, 575x with Powermate)
Harshaw Scale : 3 <(1-5; 1 best)>
 		 115x : Wide, unequal white pair (faint yellow tinge to primary). Isolated in
fov apart from two faint field stars to the S. No sign of C component. At
only 16 deg above the horizon and low over rooftops to the S, transparency
was 1½ to 2 mags worse than normal.

170x : Rho 98.2", Theta 349.5 deg, one measure.
 
 
 

 
 
 
William L. Schart 
Star: Gamma Leporis
Date & Time: 24, February, 2003
Seeing:  8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Transparency: 
Location of site: Texas, USA
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude> 
Telescope: C8
Eyepieces: 
Magnification: 		 A fairly interesting pair for the noticable contrast in color of 2 blue stars. The primary is a pale but noticably turquoise blue; the secondary is rather a sapphire blue. To the south and west of 
this pair is a 4 star asterism in the shape of a hockey stick, so I guess the pair itself is the puck.
 
 
 

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