My scope was set up on a Vixen GPDX equatorial mount, fitted with digital circles (Vixen Stellar Guide). The scope was paired with my Televue Pronto. 

I thought that it would be more sporting to switch off the digital circles and finding the stars through star-hopping. I have prepared a detailed map for each star 
in the list using SkymapPro and a laser printer. 

Finding the first star, FGW Struve 589, was very tricky but, combining my accessories I found a good solution I think to use for future observations: I fit the 
Pronto with a 32 mm Plossl eyepiece with the Amici prism by Celestron (not very good for planetary observation, but very useful for reading maps at the 
eyepiece, giving right-left and up-down correct vision), so I had a 15x70 finder with 3.3 degree field. 

Now I am working to fit a home-made reticle (with thin copper wire glued on a thin nut) to the field-stop of a 40 mm eyepiece to use for star-hopping. The 
evening was very cold. The sky was clear but with high turbulence and we had the visit of clouds passing by in the second part of the evening. 

About Struve 589, that was very tricky to find through star-hopping but then I find the right way to look for a faint star in the sky - clearly split but faint. 
Coloration white? – too faint to perceive colors 
 

The sky is much steadier and darker than the previous night of observation. 
 

Questions were raised about my observation of this pair on 12/26/99. I went back and this time I feel that I have observed the correct pair. Suspected splitting this at $*x, but definately split at 72x. PA 89d, the separation was just equal to one line width on my Celestron micrometer eyepiece. However, nothing in the literature supplied with this gives any information on correlating this to a measurement. Any help out there? 

I found that a pair of 4" separation is just about at the practical limit of the MicroGuide for my setup. I would need to get a stronger Barlow to go closer than 4", since the problem is measuring the PA 
accurately with such a short "baseline". 

I noted colors of White for the G5 primary and White for the G5 secondary. This pair has been measured by the Hipparcos satellite to be 139 light years away, which makes it about 1.3 times as bright as the Sun (0.9 and 0.4 for the primary and companion). 

A tiny, east-west, "headlight" double (looks like dim lights of an old car in the distance - way down in the valley - on a dirt road. 
 
 
 
 
 

Star: Struve 589 
Date & Time: 1/29/00, 3:30 UT - 10:00 UT 
Seeing: ) 3 improving to 4 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>.
Location of site: Huntsburg, Ohio, USA
Site classification: Suburban 
Sky darkness: 4.5 (limiting magnitude)
Other observing conditions: 14 degrees F dropping to 6 degrees F, 92% humidity
Telescope: Meade 80mm/ f11
Magnification: 82x, 128x

Just touching at 82x, clearly split at 128x

Star: Struve 589  
Date & Time: 2000 February 19 (2120 UT)
Seeing: 7/10 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>.
Location of site: Chester, England (53 11 08N; 02 51 39W)
Site classification: Suburban 
Sky darkness: 3 (Moon just past full) <Limiting magnitude>
Telescope: 63/840 mm Zeiss Telementor refractor
Magnification: x112, x210

I revisited this pair following my rather unsuccessful observation on 2000 February 13 (above).  Elongated x112.  Definitely resolved (cleanly split) x210 using averted vision, but only for periods of a few seconds at a time.  A difficult pair for this telescope, and near its limit.  Both stars appear white to me.  Difficult to judge which is the brighter, although I suspect it is the following star. 
 

d = 8.8; PA= 273