| Richard Harshaw | ||||
| Star:
Hough 153
Date & Time: Enf of July, 2001 Seeing: 8 down to 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: 7 down to 5 <1-10 Transparency Scale (10 best)> Temperature: 30ºC ( 86ºF) Location of site: Kansas City, USA Site classification: suburban Sky darkness: 4.5 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron 11" SCT f/10 Eyepiece: 5mm Lanthanum Magnification: 560x Harshaw rating: 4 |
A tough little beastie owing to the faintness of the two stars. I managed to hold a pretty good split for several seconds, and believe the stars to be W and yW. | |||
| Jim Phillips | ||||
| Star:
Hough 153
Date & Time: Oct. 3th, 2001, 8:30-9:30 EDT Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Charleston, South Carolina, USA Site classification: Suburban. Temperature: 70ºF Sky darkness: --- <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: AP 155 F/7 Apochromat Magnification: 214x, 343x Star: Hough 153 Date & Time: July 20, 2002 Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Greenwood, South Carolina USA Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 3.0 <Limiting magnitude> Temperature. Telescope: TMB 8" F/9 Eyepieces: Binoviewer with and without barcon plus extension (3.2X)Zeiss abbe orthos, 4mm, 10mm, 16mm and 34mm Brandons, 12mm Magnification: 486x, 586x |
Seen with 16mm (214X). Confirmed
with 10mm (343X). V. difficult. Needs staedy conditions. Might as well
try for 37.
Definate split with 12 mm Brandons (486X). Very faint double. Difficult to acheive focus, but, once in focus, it is definately split. 10mm (586X) too much. Even thought the seeing was
not the best the TMB 8" F/9 really
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