| Richard Jepeal | ||||
| Star: Struve 2095 Date: Jun, 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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| David
Jenkins |
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| Star: Struve 2095 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:
5.3, PA 163  |
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| Mike
Sutherland |
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| Star: Struve 2095 Date: 2 July 2006 Time: 11:00pm to 12:00pm PDT Seeing: ~ 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: below average Location of site:Beaverton Oregon, USA, 45 28N, 122 51W Site classification: Suburban Conditions: 66F, dry Sky darkness: 3 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Stellarvue F6, 80mm achro Eyepieces: 30mm Ultima, 12mm ortho, 9mm ortho, 7mm ortho, 6mm ortho, Barlow Magnification: 16x, 40x, 53x, 69x, 80x |
11:40pm
PDT 12mm ortho (40x)
and 6mm ortho (80x) I thought I saw a hint of the companion at 40x but
really
couldn't resolve anything until I increased the power. At 80x I could
get a
clean separation though it was still very close. The companion was
obvious with
direct vision. Very nice.
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| Steve
Bodin |
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| Star: Struve 2095 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 |
Wide pair of unequal
magnitude. Measured, 5.48 sec at
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| Ian
Coster |
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| Star: Struve 2095 Date: 29/08/06 Time: 22:20 UT Seeing: 3/5 Transparency: 4/5 Location of site: London Lat: 51:27:54N, Lon: 0:16:36W Site classification: Suburban Conditions: Clear Moon: Not risen Sky darkness: Mag4 Sky (ZLM) Telescope: Orion Optics 200mm F6 Eyepieces: 9mm Ortho Barlow: No Magnification: x133 |
Squashed
trapezium of stars to
the West Primary Colour: White Secondary Colour: none noted General
Notes:
clear split in 9mm, elongation in 18mm Measurements: PA: 161 Sep: 5.3" (3x
Barlow & 12.5mm MG. scale constant 5.3" per division)
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