Struve 1932

Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 1932
Date: 10 June 2006
Time: 11pm to midnight
Seeing: 3/10
Transparency: good
Location of site: Mattawa Wa, USA
46.7N,119.9W
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 60F, no wind, dry
Sky darkness: limiting mag 4.5 due full moon
Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC
Eyepieces: not used
maging: DX8263SL video camera at f10 and f20
Magnification: app. 600x, 1200x
An old favorite, viewed many times. Boiling atmosphere made this more difficult than first thought. The WDS lists the primary as a 0.3 sec pair, I might try this someday in 9/10 seeing, but not tonight. Measured, somewhat poorly, 1.52 sec at 262.3 deg PA.
 


      

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 1932
Date: June 17, 2006 UT
Seeing: Vary, from 5/10 to 8/10 (Zenith)
Transparency: ---
Location of site: New Britain, Connecticut, USA
Site classification: Urban
Conditions:
Sky darkness:
Telescope: 8in Celestron Nexstar
Eyepieces:
Magnification:

Tight visual binary. Very small gap at 178x. At 228x, easier seen. 1.6" and wideing (2006). Yellow-white and yellowish. STF 1964: Another visual binary and triple system. AC is 15.2" CD is the binary separated at 1.5" (2006), and closing. A & C stars, light yellow, D star yellowish. Barely separated or contact at 132x. Definetly separated at 178x.

 
 
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