Struve 2030

David Jenkins
Star: Struve 2030
Date: 12 June 2006
Time:  5:00-7:30 UTC
Seeing: <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>: 5
Transparency: <1-10 Scale (10 best)>: 8
Location of site:Orem, Utah USA
Latitude, 40.29694. Longitude, -111.69389
Site classification: Utah Valley urban area of 500,000 with strong light pollution due to acorn glass street lights which shoot light up and out – The bane of all local observers. Salt Lake City metro light dome to the northwest at 40 miles.
Conditions: Clear, breezy (as can be seen in some of the images), warm
Moon: Full moon raising late in observing session
Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude>: 3.5
Telescope: Celestron GPS 11" on APT Wedge
Mount: Standard Celestron fork and tripod
Eyepieces: Meade Super Plossl – 32mm
Diagonal: Yes, Meade 1.25" flip mirror diagonal
Magnification: Approximately 350X using Nikon Coolpix 4500 and 4X zoom
Software: Reduc version 3.62 – Great software from Florent Losse. S33 group member.

 		Distance: 5.7, PA 241
 

        

Axel Tute
Star: Struve 2030
Date: 29.06.2006
Seeing: <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>: 7
Transparency: <1-10 Scale (10 best)>: 9
Location of site: Küssaberg-Dangstetten, Germany
Site classification: rural
Conditions: no wind, warm low humidity (I forgot to measure)
Moon: no moon
Sky darkness: Bortle 4
Telescope: Celestron 8
Eyepieces:
Magnification:

Split with the 26mm (77X) Ploessel. Better with the 12mm (167x) RKE. "A's" color is red. Estimated PA is 240°

 
       

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 2030
Date: July, 14th, 2006
Time:---
Seeing: 6-7/10
Transparency: ---
Location of site: New Britain, Connecticut
USA
Site classification: Urban
Conditions: ----
Sky darkness: ---
Telescope: 8in Celestron Nexstar
Eyepieces: ---
Magnification: 53x to 228x

 Primary is yellow. I have this star as a AO spectrum!? Gotta check to see what other S33 members list the color at.
  

Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 2030
Date: 13 Aug 2006
Time: 10 pm to midnight
Seeing: 5-6/10
Transparency: poor
Location of site: Mattawa Wa, USA
46.7N,119.9W
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 72F, no wind, dry
Sky darkness: limiting mag 5, bright moon
Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC
Eyepieces: not used
maging: DX8263SL video camera at f10, f20 and f30
Magnification: app. 600x - 1800x

Had to try a wider one to get some easy seeing. Nice pair of unequal stars. Measured; 5.95 sec at 240.4 deg PA.




  
      
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