| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star: Struve 1908 Date & Time: 4 Aug 2005, 10 pm to 11 pm local Seeing: 3->2 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: good between hi-cirrus 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 |
Triple star with a close and a
far component. Both difficult, but seeing made the close B star more of
a
challange than it should be. The faint C star seems more like mag 12.5
rather
than the 14 listed. Measured, poorly, AB 1.36 sec at 150.2 deg
PA, AC moved
since 1874, 57.02 sec at 106.6 deg PA.
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