| William L. Schart | ||||
| Star:
Aitken 28
Date & Time: July 10-11, 2002, 11:30 pm to 12:30 am, CDT Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: 8 <1-10, 10 best> Location of site: Killeen, TX, USA Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 4-4.5 <Limiting magnitude> Temperature: 77F (25C) Telescope: Celestar 8" SCT Eyepieces: 25mm, 27mm, 10mm, and CMG eyepieces Magnification: |
Just elongated
at low power, barely but definately split at mid power, and clearly split
at high power. There was little if any color noticable, in part due to
the faintness. In the low power FOV this pair appears as part of a triangular
asterism with one star being located almost due north and the other
to the SW.
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| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star:
Struve 2132
Date & Time: Imaged on 8 July and visual on the 14th Seeing: 5->7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: good Location of site: Silverdale, WA USA 47N,123W Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 5.7+ <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 10DK cass with bino head Eyepieces: Magnification: 160x, 250x Additional: PC164C video camera |
Very
dim pair, difficult to split at 250x, but appeared as two blue dots occasionally.
Measured: 2.04sec at 038.2 deg PA.
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