Struve 1874

Dave Jenkins
Star: Struve 1874
Date & Time: 5 July 2005
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>.
Transparency:
Location of site: Salt Lake City, Utah
40.3 N 111.7 W
Site classification: Urban area with heavy light pollution. All city lights are acorn style so all lighting goes up and out not down
Sky darkness: 2.5 with 5 best
Conditions: clear, no wind, warm, a little hazy
Moon: no moon
Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS w/APT equatorial wedge
Mount: Celestron field tripod
Eyepieces: Meade Super Plossl 32mm - CP4500 Digital Camera @ 4x optical
zoom
Magnification: 350X
Diagonal: Not used
   
Separation: 26.5, PA: 289.8
 



Louis Marchesi
Star: Struve 1874
Date & Time: 11 July 2005 3:10 UTC
Seeing: Pickering 4
Transparency: Below Average
Location of site: New London Township, PA, US (+39d45m,-75d52m)
Site classification: Suburban/Rural
Sky darkness: Not determined
Conditions: Partly cloudy, calm, light dew, 18C (64F)
Moon: None (set a 3:14 UTC)
Telescope: TMB 152 f/7.9 Apochromatic Refractor
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Eyepieces: 14mm TMB Super Monocentric
Magnification: 86x
  
Aaaaah! I can finally see some color! This generously-separated pair of stars were yellowish and blue. Refreshing after many pairs of white.

  


Steve Bodin
Star: Struve 1874
Date & Time:14 July 2005, 11pm to 1am
Seeing: 4/5 <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: 81F, no wind, dry
Moon:
Telescope: Meade 16 LX200GPS
Eyepieces: not used
Additional: DX-8263SL color video camera at prime focus, f/10
Magnification: app. 600x
   
A wide pair of unequal stars mostly white in color. A third fainter star was noted to the north, but it is not listed in the WDS, measured it anyway. Measurements, AB 26.81 sec at 287.9 deg PA, new one AC 73.42 sec at 309.7 deg PA.
  

  


Morgan Spangle
Star: Struve 1874
 Date & Time:
Seeing: --- <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency:
Location of site: Larchmont, NY  40.55.26N 73.43.44W
Site classification: suburban
Sky darkness:
Telescope: Borg 101ED refractor, f/6.3
Mount: Vixen GPDX, SkySensor2000PC goto
Eyepieces: not used
CCD: SBIG ST237A @ 2.39 arcseconds per pixel
Software: Astroplanner; CCDSoft v.5; theSky v.6 Pro;Adobe photoshop
      

STF 1874  27.1"  289.5 deg
 


 

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