| Bill Reinehr | ||||
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Alcione (Eta Tauri)
Date & Time: November 15, 2000, 2:05 UTC Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Pflugerville, Texas, USA (30 degrees N.) Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: -- <Limiting magnitude> Conditions: Clear - Better than average. Temperature: 44° F. Binocular: Orion 8x42 (handheld) & Orion 11x70 on Bogen (Manfrotto) Fluid Head and Tripod.
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Part of M45 (the Pleiades). No split could be seen hand
holding the 8x42s. Easily spilt when tripod used. The entire cluster is
perfect in the 4.5° FOV of the 11x70 Binos - far better than any photograph.
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| Eddy O'Connor | ||||
| Star: Alcione (Eta Tauri)
Date & Time: November 22nd 2000. 10.30 -11p.m local; UT +11 Seeing: 5-6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: 7/10, (Northern sky to mag. 4.5; Southern to 5.5) Temperature: 18ºC Other Conditions: Still; high humidity after rain. No Moon Location of Site: Terara, New South Wales Australia, S34.52, W150.38 degrees. Site Classification: Suburban Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude> Binoculars: 7X35 Tento. 25X100 Somet HS: 3 HS= Harshaw Scale1-5 (1 best) |
Alcyone. Allen describes this, the brightest member of
the group as a Greenish-yellow star. These eyes see Whitish yellow in the
25X100 . The wide 8.8 mag companion appears Light blue and there is a rich
field.
After eye adaptation two equal faint stars appeared as a close double
to the north of the companion star but under a two-inch mask they disappeared.
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| Glen Chapman | ||||
| Star:
Alcione (Eta Tauri)
Date & Time: 29/12/00 21.40 UT +10h Seeing: 6, improving <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Sydney, Australia Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 4.69 improving to 5.37 <Limiting magnitude> Binocular: 7 x 50 binocs |
Very difficult to pick up secondary using aveted vision.
Possible target star sighted at about PA 350. Which is in the correct area.
Eta is positoned in a very attractive field displaying the vivid blue associated with such a young cluster. Slow moving 3rd mag meteor seen moving through cluster while writing up notes.
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| Bob Hogeveen | ||||
| Star:
Alcione (Eta Tauri)
Date & Time: 3rd, January, 2001 Seeing: --- <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Annen, The Netherlands (53 N, 6 E) Site classification: Village-backyard Sky darkness: 3-4 <Limiting magnitude> Conditions: halo surrounding half-Moon Temperature: -- Binocular: Swift Supreme 10x50 (on tripod, some help from a Swarovsky 20x spotting scope) |
I don't have to tell you of this beautiful field. With
the bino (10x50) only the two brightest stars were visible, with the Swarovski
at 20x all four stars came forward. This is a rating 1 for my Swarovski.
It is obvious immediately that the mentioned mag's of the four stars in the Bino-table are not right. A and B are bright, D and D much fainter. There mag's should be (Skymap info) : A=2.85 B=6.3 C=8.3 D=8.5. Their positions look a bit like this : . . * *
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| Thad Robosson | ||||
| Star: Alcione (Eta Tauri)
Date & Time: 1-17-01, 3:30 - 5:30 UT Seeing: 4~5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Weather: clear, but quite chilly at 45°F (Hey, it's cold to us....) Location of Site: Phoenix, AZ 112 08.029w, 33 32.674n Site Classification: Suburban Sky darkness: -- <Limiting magnitude> Transparency: 3~4/10 Binoculars: 10x50 on homemade bino mount. |
Barely saw all 3 with averted. Est PA's of... 280°(closest),
290°(Furthest), and 283°(middle). I was suprised that I could
go this faint with binos in town....
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