Struve 577

 
Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 577
Date & Time: 26 November 2002,
9pm to 11pm
Seeing: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency:  fair, some hi clouds
Location: Silverdale WA USA, 47N, 123W
Site classification: Suburb-rural
Sky darkness: 5.5 <Limiting magnitude>
Conditions: No wind, some dew, temp 32º F
Telescope: Celestron C8
Eyepieces: not used, video only
Magnification: ---
Additional: PC164C video camera pf, 3x, 6x teleconverters		 Difficult object due to the closeness and faint magnitude. This was elongated using the 3x magnification, and split at 6x, but this is near the limit of an 8 inch with this video camera setup. Measurements: separation 0.871 sec at 358.9 deg PA.

 
 
 
Bob Hogeveen 
Star: Struve 577
Date & Time: December 8, 2002 (22.00) 
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 9 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Location: Annen, The Netherlands
53ºN, 6ºE
Site classification: Village backyard
Sky darkness: 5 <Limiting magnitude>
Moon: No
Conditions: No clouds
Telescope: C11 - 11" F/10 SCT
Eyepieces: 40mm Pentax SMC XL, 10mm Plossl
Magnification: 70x, 280x
Harshaw Scale: 4 <1-5; 1 best>
   		 After finding this double with low power (70x), situated in a moderate field Idirectly switched to 280x. The seeing allowed for an on-and-off separation. Formoments the separation was obvious and easy to see, other moments onlyelongation remained.The pair is a bit too faint to give a nice view at this power, especially now that the images are smeared out quite a bit. 
   

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

(c) 1998-2002 The Spirit of 33