Struve 918

Richard Jepeal
Star: Struve 918
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:

Appealing pair.  Whitish primary, non-white, yellowish? secondary. I wonder, in my suggestive eye/brain coordination , if the brighter yellow star make the dimmer star appear yellow to me?  Just a fleeting thought out here in the din of the city.
 
    

Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 918
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

 Closer pair with nice color contrast. Creamy white and blue. WDS also has a C component too far for my FOV. Measured; 4.86 sec at 333.9 deg PA.
  

  

     

Axel Tute
Star: Struve 918
Date & Time: 19-03-06
Time: 19:03 UT
Seeing: 8 from 10
Transparency: 8 from 10
Location of site: Kössaberg-Dangstetten
Germany / 47º36N, 8º 21E
Site classification: Rural
Conditions: no wind, 3.6ºC, humidity 60%
Moon: no moon
Sky darkness: Bortle 4
Telescope: Celestron 8
Diagonal: Yes
Eyepieces: 26mm Plössel, 12mm RKE, 8mm RKE
Magnification: 77x, 167x, 250x 
   
Not a pair with a big distance.  "B" seems to be bluish.
Measured PA = 334.7º, AB = 3.5
 


          
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