| Bob Hogeveen | ||||
| Star:
Struve 2565
Date & Time: 28 July, 2001, 23.15 Seeing: 3 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: <1-10 Transparency Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Anloo, The Netherlands - 53N, 6E Site classification: Rural - with some small towns around Sky darkness: 2 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron 11" SCT f/10 Eyepieces: Ultima 30mm Magnification: 93x Harshaw rating: 3 |
This double is a bit faint, especially under these bad sky-conditions. Fortunately this one was directly in the FOV of my C11, with two stars of mag. 9.5 and a separation of 5.4" it would have been very difficult to locate with the finderscope. With the C11 and the 30mm Ultima however it is an easy to see and easy to split double. | |||
| Eddy O'connor | ||||
| Star:
Struve 2565
Date & Time: August 13th 2001. 9-10 p.m local; UT +9. Sunday, Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: 6/10 Location of site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia Long.150º.38 ; Dec. S 34º.52. Temperature. 12ºC Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 8" Newt. F9 Eyepieces: 25mm K, 12.5 mm ortho Magnification: 73x, 146x Harshaw Scale: 4 <1-5; 1 best> |
Stv 2565. Mag. 9.5/9.5; Sep 5.4." This
double lies in a sparse
area of sky with few markers and tonight my 7X50 binoculars could just track this dim spark after much searching. Comments: Two faint stars of equal magnitude,
well separated in a
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