Salt Lake City, USA
ADS 8202
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Doubles
to celebrate the Winter Olympics 2002
Salt Lake City, USA ADS 8202 |
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Date & Time: 13 Feb 2002, 12:30 to 01:30 local Seeing: 6-7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: Intermittent high cirrus Location of site: Silverdale Wa, USA 47ºN, 123ºW Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 5.7 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron 8 SCT Eyepiece: 24 Koenig, 19 televue, 3x barlow, PC23 videocamera Magnification: 250x, 315x |
As the northern sky clouded
over, had one chance to spot this entrant from the upside-down continent.
At culmination this star would still be 2 degrees below the tall firs to
my south. But, as any golfer knows, trees are 90% air! Had a shot
between the trees and a miracle happened. Just spotted in the finder and
quickly gazed into the eyepiece with 250x still attached! Way to
much for such a low altitude. But there it was, widely separated
spectra of red, white and blue twinkles.
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| Eddy O'Connor | ||||
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Date & Time: Thursday, February 14th, 2002 10:00-11:30 p.m.local; UT +10 Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia. 150º.38 E, 34º.52 S Site classification: Suburban Conditions: Moderate humidity. No Moon. No snow since the Palaeolithic Age. Temperature. 17ºC Sky darkness: --- <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 8" Newt. F9 Eyepieces: 25mm K, 20mm K, 12.5 mm Ortho. Magnification:
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This is not going to make
the finals, but if you are looking for a pair you may never see listed
anywhere else, this wide pair are easily spotted. It is a
short hop from XI Hya, itself near Corvus, so location is moderately easy. (Do I seem to be promoting the Jamaican Bob-sled team here? You are right.!) Comments: This is a Golden pair with a deeper yellow star to the North. HS3 (Not on the List) This is a rank outsider and a star circled thirty years ago on my old Norton which I should have selected. Rumour has it that it can be split through a hole in an igloo and spotted even by a French Ice-skating judge. Comments: A wide Yellow and
Deep blue pair and a splendid pair for a small telescope. The companion
star is regarded as the most easily spotted White Dwarf in the sky and
another closer companion which I did not spot tonight in increasing cirrus
cloud in the West make this a HS1 triple star.
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