Aitken 28

 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 
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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