| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star: Struve 1865 Date & Time: 26 July 2005, 10 pm to midnight Seeing: 5->3 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: good Location of site: Mattawa WA, USA 46N 119W Site classification: Rural Sky darkness: Limit mag 6.5 Conditions: temp 80F, dry no wind Telescope: Meade 16 LX200GPS Eyepieces: not used Additional: DX-8263SL color video camera at prime focus and 2x Magnification: app. 600x and1,200x |
Always a close pair, very
bright, but closing now and will get very difficult in a couple of
years. Tough
tonight as it is slipping into the western horizon and just not enough
altitude
to get above to poor seeing. Both stars showed spectrum spreading and
elongation, a narrow band filter would have helped or one of those
fancy split
prisms. Measured, poorly, 0.68 sec at 301+or-6 deg PA. |
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