h 589
Eddy O'connor
Star: h 589
Date & Time: Monday, July 1st, 2002
10p.m - 11p.m. local; UT +9
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Transparency: 8 <1-10, 10 best>
Location of site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia
150º.38, S 34º.52
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness:  <Limiting magnitude>
Moon: No Moon.
Temp. 8ºC
Telescope: 16" Newt. F5.1
Eyepieces:  10mm Plossl,18mm Ultima 
Celestron, 32 mm Teleview Plossl 
Magnification: 
   		 This is an easy starhop across two mag. 7 stars near Theta Oph. 

Comments: This is a delightful  and even Bluish wide white pair and a 
further bright star lies SW in the field. Easy at low power. HS2
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
William L. Schart
Star: h 589
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: 		 A nice little colon in the sky. It is rather faint to make out any color. I measured the separation at 9.9" and the PA at 302 (ave of 5 meas).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
Steve Bodin
Star: h 589
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
 		 This star is as far south as it gets from my house due to 100 foot tall fir tree south and the general poor air at low elevations. The visual appearance at 160x in the bino-viewer showed two blue fuzzy star due to all that turbulence. Measured with the C8 at 10.1 sec and 300 deg PA.

 
 
 
Thad Robosson
Star: h 589
Date & Time: Aug 06, 2002; 22:06:36
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. 
Transparency: 6 <1-10, 10 best>
Location of site: Twin Points Observatory,
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
33 26.725N, 112 18.902W
Site classification: 
Temperature: 86*F -> 79*
Humidity: 31%RH -> 51%RH
Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude> 
Conditions: Some thin clouds.  No breeze. 
Telescope: 8"f/6 Newtonian
Mount: EQ
Eyepieces: 10mm, 13mm, & 15mm Vixen
Lanthanum,  22mm & 35mm Televue
Panoptic, 2x shorty Barlow, 5x Televue
PowerMate, Celestron Microguide,
Custom built filar micrometer.
Magnification: 55x
HS: 3 <1-5 Scale (1 best)>
    		 Finally using circles properly....Found easily.  55x shows split easily.
Not quite equal pair, Primary is white, companion appears greyish.
PA noted near 290*
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

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