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Hu 888
Date & Time: 18 May 2002, 11pm local Seeing: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: good Location of site: Silverdale Wa USA 47N, 123W Site classification: Suburban Conditions: Sky darkness: 4.5 <Limiting magnitude> Moon: bright moon Telescope: Celestron C8 Eyepiece(s): 24mm Koenig, 19mm Televue, 4x barlow Magnification: 333x, 420x Additional: PC164C videocamera, 3x barlow app. 1000x
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Located above the tail triangle
of Leo. One of two faint stars below 92 Leo, the other is STF1566, a nice
double of mag 8,10 at 2.5". This star is very faint and never showed a
split visually, only a blue N/S streak. Too faint for a C8 visually. The
video camera had more luck and showed a clean split after integrating and
stacking 100 frames, measured 0.66 sec, 177 deg PA.
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