Struve 2080


Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 2080
Date: 17 July 2006
Time:
11pm to midnight
Seeing: 5/10
Transparency: good
Location of site: Mattawa Wa, USA
46.7N,119.9W

Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 82F, no wind, dry
Sky darkness
:
limiting mag 6.5
Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC
Eyepieces: not used
maging: DX8263SL video camera at f30
Magnification: app. 1800x

Looked to be a real nut with a close 13th mag companion. And it is! Really difficult target. The WDS number are from 1968, apparently, no one else has had luck with this one for almost 40 years! Can't say that my observation are very good either, the secondary seems to just be a smear of light to the north of the primary. Poorly measured, 0.66 sec at 011.2 deg PA.
 


      

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