Struve 1401


Florent Losse
Star: Struve 1401
Date: April 6th and 7th 2006
Time:

Seeing: 8 of 10
Transparency: very good
Location of site: 4433N 0012W
Site classification: Rural
Conditions
:

Sky darkness: m lim=6
Telescope: Homemade Newton 8" used at EFL=4.70 m
Imaging device: Audine CCD (KAF400)
Imaging software: Pisco
Reduction: Reduc v3.62

Eyepieces: Visual notes with the 120mm guidescope and 20mm eyepiece
Magnification
: 50x


Easy and not really interesting in a poor field.
Measured 020°6 / 23"84

 

 

    
      

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 1401
Date: April 10. 2006
Time:
9:34pm to 11:53pm EDT
Seeing: 5/10
Transparency: ---
Location of site: New Britain, Connecticut
USA

Site classification: Urban
Conditions: 12-day-old-moon
Sky darkness: ---
Telescope: 8in Celestron Nexstar
Eyepieces: ---
Magnification
:


Whitish primary and non-white (dark grayish blue) secondary.


       

Lucian Curelaru
Star: Struve 1401
Date23/04/2006
Time:
22:15 local time (19:15 UT)
Seeing: 2-3/10 (Pickering scale)
Transparency: 4/10
Location of site: Sibiciu de Sus / Buzau county, ROMANIA
 Latitude 45.333 N / Longitude  26.350 E / Elevation 264 m
Site classification: Rural site /  a medium village but located at minimum 50 km to
nearest big town

Conditions
:
about 7 degrees C , little wind with random intensification,  high humidity
Sky darkness: 4.5 limiting magnitude for naked eye
Telescope: 10" F/5 dobsonian reflector
Eyepieces: 25mm Sirius Plosll / 10mm Sirius Plosll / 3x achromat Barlow
Magnification
:
50x , 125x , 375x

50x the companion can be seen but not from first sight.Magnitude diffrence (about 2-3 mag) The pair can be splited with direct vision but quite at limit for this magnification.

125x the pair is splited clearly from start, looking quite wide . No color

375x Same . Rough estimation done  : SEP~1/15 from field(about 25 arcseconds) PA~20

NOTE: The above estimations are quite rough , and made with only eye aproximations.

 
      

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