S 694

 
Steve Bodin
Star: S 694
Date & Time: 9 July 2002,
11pm to 1 am local
Seeing: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency:  good
Location of site: Silverdale, WA USA
47N,123W
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 5.7 - 6 <Limiting magnitude>
Telescope: Bigdog 17.5 inch DOB with goto drives
Eyepieces: 19 mm televue plus paracorr 125x
Magnification: 
Additional: PC164C videocamera at prime focus app. 300x mag.		 Wide pair easy in the finder. Both appear yellow or yellow-white. Measurement: 79.92 sec, 235.9 deg PA.







 

 
Patrick Thompson 
Star: S 694
Date & Time: 19th /20th July 2002
01:00
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 6 <1-10, 10 best>
Location of site: West Wickham,
Kent, UK. 51°23' N, 0°0'E
Site classification: Suburban garden
Sky darkness: 3.5 <Limiting magnitude>
Moon: 79% waxing gibbous
Conditions: 
Telescope: 8" Meade LX-90 SCT f/10
Eyepieces: 18mm Televue Radian
13.8mm Meade SWA
12mm Meade Astrometric
Magnification: 115x,145x,170x
Harshaw Scale: 3 <1-5; 1 best> 		 115x : Wide white pair. Solitary bright star to the north at the edge of the
fov.

170x : Measured @ 81.8" & 238.5 deg (average of 5)
 

 

 
William L. Schart
Star: S 694
Date & Time: 7/23/02, 11:22 pm to ~ 00:00 CST
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency:  <1-10, 10 best>
Location of site: Killeen, TX, USA
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 2-3 <Limiting magnitude>
Moon: Full Moon
Telescope: Celestar 8" SCT
Eyepieces: 25mm, 17mm, 12mm, 6,5mm
Magnification: 
Harshaw Scale:  <1-5; 1 best> 		 A very wide spaced pair. Very pretty colors: the brighter one. 
locatetd on the west, is yellow and the dimmer one to the east is blue, 
which sometimes seems to be a bit green. Since it is so far from the 
primary, I doubt that the yellow color of that is a factor, it may be do 
to seeing or perhaps just my eyes playing tricks on me.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Thad Robosson 
Star: S 694
Date & Time: Aug 02, 2002; 21:58:11
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 5->3 <1-10, 10 best>
Location of site: Twin Points Observatory,
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
33 26.725N, 112 18.902W
Site classification: 
Sky darkness:  <Limiting magnitude>
Temperature: 93ºF, 23% RH
Conditions: Some clouds in distance, none in
vicinity. Yet. Sky not quite dark.  Very still,
only a very slight breeze felt
Telescope: 8"f/6 Newtonian on EQ mount
Eyepieces: 10mm, 13mm, & 15mm Vixen
Lanthanum, 22mm & 35mm Televue Panoptic,
2x shorty Barlow, 5x Televue PowerMate,
Celestron Microguide, Custom built filar
micrometer.
Magnification: 
Harshaw Scale: 2, for the colors. <1-5; 1 best> 
 		 EP/Magnification used...22mm/55x 
Notes....Higher powers are wasted on this pair, which is quite
lovely at lower powers. Immediately notable is the colors, 
almost Alberio-like with a Yellow primary and a light blue
companion.  I noted a PA of approx. 240*. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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