Struve 912

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 912
Date: 7 Feb 2006
Time: 6:00pm (EST) to 10:20pm (EST)
Seeing: 6/10
Transparency:
Location of site: New Britain, Connecticut
USA
Site classification: Urban
Conditions: Periods of thin clouds
Sky darkness: 9 day old moon
Telescope: 8in Celestron Nexstar
Eyepieces: 10mm (Radian), 14mm (Pentax), 18mm (Radian),
24mm (Panoptic)
Magnification:

Clear skies again.  At 145x just glimpsed this white primary.  Just glimsped, or wishful thinking?  WDS has the secondary at 10.9 magnitude and with the 8.6 primary, a real difficult observation to see at this urban setting.
 
    

Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 912
Date: 4 March 2006
Time: 10pm to 11pm
Seeing: 3-4/10
Transparency: poor
Location: Mattawa Wa, USA, 46.7N,119.9W
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: 40F,  dry
Sky darkness: 
Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC
Eyepieces: not used
Imaging: DX8263SL video camera at f10 and f30
Magnification: app. 600x,1800x

 An easy sight, but my measurement seems off, don't know why, blame it on poor seeing. Measurement, 3.77 sec at 022.1 deg PA.

  

  

    
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