| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star: Struve 824 Date: 17 Mar 2006 Time: 10pm to 11pm Seeing: 2/10 Transparency: fair, passing clouds Location: Mattawa Wa, USA, 46.7N,119.9W Site classification: Rural Conditions: 40F, gusty wind, dry Sky darkness: limiting mag 5.5 due to moon rising Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC Eyepieces: not used Imaging: DX8263SL video camera at prime focus and 2x Magnification: app. 600x, 1200x |
The
nutcracker of the project, and in very poor seeing conditions for
splitting tight pairs. Difficult to tell in real-time on the TV monitor
as the
seeing made everything as big as footballs. Managed to stack 30 video
frames
that showed a pair out of 350. Still poor results, an elongation in
reality.
Measured: 1.01 sec at 184
deg PA. |
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