| James T. Hudson | ||||
| Star: 2 Scorpius
Date & Time: Aug. 3, 1998 9:15 to 9:30 EDT Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: USA Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 4" Vixen Refractor, 5.1" Astro-Physics Refractor, 8" f/8 Newtonian. Magnification: 153x, 208x, 216x, 333x |
Locating the star was easy since it was close to Pi Sco. Located
about 2 degrees west and slightly north of Pi, 2 Sco. is about 5th mag.
and easy to see in the finder. At 30-50x no indication of a secondary
star was visible. At 153x in the 4" there was a hint that there might
be another star close to the primary. At 208x in the 4" the secondary
star was visible but was in the diffraction pattern of the primary, which
made it hard to see any detail. At 216x in the 5.1" the secondary
was not in the diffraction pattern and was clearly visible.
It appeared to be at a P.A. of about 270 degrees and the separation
was slightly less than 2.5" using Epsilon Lyra as a comparison. In
the 8" reflector at 333x the pair showed no discernable color contrast
or other distinctive features. This star requires good optics and good
seeing to separate because it is low in the sky and has a large difference
in brightness between the components.
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| Pino Bandini | ||||
| Star: 2 Scorpius
Location of site: Ravenna, Italy Date of observations (UT): 19 June 2000 – 21.20 UTC Site classification: Urban Sky conditions: Seeing: 7 (10 best) Temperature: 24C Limiting visual magnitude: -- Telescope: Celestron C8 Magnification: 81x (eyepiece 25 mm Plossl) + diagonal |
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| Edward Otte | ||||
| Star:
2 Scorpius
Date & Time: Thursady, July 13, 2000, 10:30 PM Seeing: <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Lodi, NJ = 40.8866 -074.0866 Site classification: 15 miles west of massive light polluted NYC or as bad as it gets! Sky darkness: 4.5 <limiting magnitude> Telescope: 8" f/6 Dobsonian Magnification: 95x |
Both stars are well seperated under the smallest magnifications.
Omega1 is a 3.98m, B1 star while Omega2 is a 3.56m, G2.
I viewed omega1 as a whitish-blue compared to a yellowish-orange omega2. To my surprise, as I checked the spectra afterwards each one was near the theoretical color.
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| Eddy O'Connor | ||||
| Star: 2 Scorpius
Date & Time: July 18th 2000, 6.45 -7.30 p.m local; UT +10 Seeing: 7 dropping to 3 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Transparency: 9/10 Temperature: 7oC. Dew Location of Site: Terara, New South Wales, Australia, Long.150.38 degrees; South 34.52. Site Classification: Suburban Sky darkness: <Limiting magnitude> Instrument: 8" F9 Dobsonian Magnification: 72x, 144x |
This star was easy to locate in a small group of mag.
Five stars near Pi Scorpio. With X72 an elongation was observed but the half inch eyepiece at X144 offered a clean separation. The Primary appeared light Blue and the comes showed a hint of Pink. |
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| William L. Schart | ||||
| Star: 2 Scorpius
Date & Time: 7/21/00 11:39 pm CDT Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Location of site: Killeen, TX (Lat 31 N, Elev 600 ft) Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Orion 6" Dob. Magnification: 32x, 48x, 72x, 98x, 120x, 144x, 240x |
Nice orangish pair, but rather tight - not split at lower
powers. At 72x I started to suspect some elongation, at 120x the secondary
popped in and out of viewas seeing varied. Higher powers were tried, but
not of any use tonight. Not able to make any measurements, but the PA was
pretty much in the directgion of drift, confirming the ID.
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| Richard Harshaw | ||||
| Star: 2 Scorpius
Location of site: Northern Kansas City, Missouri (USA). 94d 30m west longitude, 39d 15m north latitude 980 ft above Mean Sea Level Date of observations (UT): July 22, 2000; 0230 hours Site classification: suburban Sky conditions: seeing-- 8 out of 10 transparency-- 8 out of 10 limiting visual magnitude-- 4.5 mag Telescope: Celestron C-8 Eyepiece: 7.4mm, 280x |
Colors noted: yW and pB.
A split was suspected at 104x. This star is a member of the Sco OB2 Association. Position: 1554-2520
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