| Richard Jepeal | ||||
| Star: Struve 939 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: |
Delightful small
triangle. Used 85x. Primary appears to be
white and the B star greyish white. C star color?. |
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| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star: Struve 939 Date & Time: 8 Feb 2006 Time: 10pm to 11pm Seeing: 4-5/10 Transparency: good Location of site: Mattawa Wa, USA 46.9N,119.9W Site classification: Rural Conditions: 33F, slight wind, dry Sky darkness: limiting mag 4.5 due moon Telescope: Meade 16 inch LX200GPS UHTC Eyepieces: not used Imaging: DX8263SL video camera at f5 with reducer Magnification: app. 300x |
Real jewel
of a triple nearly equal and nearly equilateral. All
three stars seem a white color. Actually the WDS has another very faint
companion to the west of the primary, just visible but very faint,
cataloged as
ABH 47. Measurements; AB
30.2 sec at 106.3 deg PA, AC 39.57 sec at 051.0
deg PA, BC 33.33 sec at 003.2 deg PA, AD 36.4 sec at 304.0 deg PA. |
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| Mike Sutherland | ||||
| Star: Struve 939 Date: 18 Feb 2006 Time: 7:30pm to 8:30pm Seeing: About 7/10 Transparency: average Location of site: Beaverton Oregon, USA, 45 28N, 122 51W Site classification: Suburban Conditions: 32F (0C), no wind, dry Sky darkness: limiting mag 4 Telescope: Takahashi FS102 Eyepieces: 30mm Ultima, 9mm ortho Magnification: 27x, 91x |
Located at 7:57pm PST.
This beautiful triple was easily seen the the 30mm Ultima. Resembles an
Isosceles
triangle with one component
half again brighter than the
other two. Lovely at any power.
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