Herschel 3798

 
Steve Bodin 
Star: Herschel 3798
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
 		 Both stars rather faint and about as far south as I can go before running into 100 foot tall fir trees. Poor measure: 16.39 sec at 73 deg PA.


 






 

 
Eddy O’Connor 
Star: Herschel 3798
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: --- <1-5 (1 best)>		 This double sits in a difficult to spot field, but I had prepared a detailed finder chart and soon spotted it. South of Gamma Lep.

Comments: The components are 8.6 and 9.3 at a wide 15.4". They seemed 
an almost even but delicate White pair with a small triangle of stars 
nearby. 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
William L. Schart 
Star: Herschel 3798
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  rather dim little pair, nonetheless I perceived these as blue. There is a much dimmer third star perhaps about 45” or so away. Later I consulted one of the WDS files and found that ther is no third member listed.
 

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