Struve 16


Axel Tute
Star: Struve 16
Date: Date: 26.10.2006
Time:
19:10 UT
Seeing: 9 / 10
Transparency: 6/10
Location: Germany.
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 12°C, 84% rel. humidity, no wind, no moon
Sky darkness: Bortle 4
Telescope: Celestron 8 & Celestron Comet Catcher (Schmidt-Newton 51/4", 500mm)
Diagonal: yes
Eyepieces: 26mm Ploessel
Magnification: 77x

Easy pair. "A" has a light colour of a mixture of blue and green. Relativiely closer in the comet catcher using a 10mm Ploessel (50x) eyepiece.



 

        

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 16
Date: October/2006
Time:

Seeing: ---
Transparency: ---
Location of site: New Britain, Connecticut
USA

Site classification: Urban
Conditions:
Sky darkness: ---
Telescope: 8in Celestron Nexstar
Eyepieces: ---
Magnification
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Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 16
Date: 7 Nov 2006
Time:
8pm to 9pm local
Seeing: 2/10
Transparency: good
Location: Mattawa Wa, USA, 46.7N,119.9W
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 55F, no wind, dry
Sky darkness: limiting mag 6.5
Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC
Eyepieces: not used
Imaging: DX8263SL video camera at f10
Magnification: app. 600x

Nice closer pair of unequal magnitude, also needed more magnification for an accurate measure. Data, 5.89 sec at 040.4 deg PA. STF 30 Easy pair, and quite bright too. Measured, 13.82 sec at 312.7 deg PA
 

 

 

        

David Jenkins
Star: Struve 16
Date: 24 November, 2006
Time:
1:00-3:30 UTC
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 8 <1-10 Scale (10 best)>
Location: Orem, Utah, USA.
40.29694N, 111.69389W

Site classification: Utah Valley urban area of 500,000 with strong light pollution. Salt Lake City metro light dome to the northwest at 40 miles
Conditions: Clear, slight breeze, cold 33 degrees F
Sky darkness: 3.5 <Limiting magnitude>
Moon:
Waxing quarter moon
Telescope: Celestron GPS 11” on APT Wedge
Mount:
Standard Celestron
Eyepieces: Meade Super Plossl – 32mm
Imaging: Nikon Coolpix 4500, 4X zoom
Magnification: Approximately 350X
Diagonal:
Yes, Meade 1.25” flip mirror diagonal
Software:
Reduc version 3.62
 

Distance: 6.3  PA: 40.5


      

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