Thursday, June 22, 2017

more doubles

The night of the 20th I was out with the 12.5-inch again.  There was a large temperature drop so seeing did not settle until after 10pm.  Viewed Jupiter for a while at 277x, with the GRS right in the middle of the band.  Spent some more time in CVn for doubles:

STT 272: Seeing not very good -- can't make out the 10th mag faint B
13H 54M 25.48S +29° 54' 56.3" P.A. 358 SEP 1.3 MAG 7.56,10.18 SP F2 DIST. 107.53 PC (350.76 L.Y.)

STF 1600: Pretty orange and blue pair, 8-9 mag, 1.5 delta mag, wide separation ~10"
12H 05M 34.42S +51° 55' 52.2" P.A. 94 SEP 7.8 MAG 7.63,8.28 SP G8III DIST. 369 PC (1203.68 L.Y.)

STF 1609: Orange and blue, 2 delta mag, pretty. [AB seen.  AC 13.78 mag, not seen]
12H 11M 41.76S +50° 50' 15.8" P.A. 204 SEP 11.3 MAG 7.98,9.55 SP F2 DIST. 184.84 PC (602.95 L.Y.)

STF 1679: Fairly faint equal magnitude, 3" [AB seen; AC 13.68 mag not seen]
12H 46M 00.83S +49° 49' 23.0" P.A. 207 SEP 5.9 MAG 9.62,10.01 SP F6IV DIST. 113.64 PC (370.69 L.Y.)

STF 1718: faint equal pair with wide separation [AB,C seen.  AB is 0.2" not seen--BU 643, Burnham find]
13H 05M 30.27S +50° 59' 11.0" P.A. 272 SEP 12.7 MAG 9.84,10.07 SP F8

STF 1758: Evenly matched yellow-orange pair ~4".  Nice
13H 32M 51.51S +49° 08' 24.3" P.A. 290 SEP 3.3 MAG 8.7,8.95 SP G0 DIST. 77.04 PC (251.3 L.Y.)

STF 1770: Tight light orange pair, 2 delta mag, ~1". Needed 443x to split.
13H 37M 42.92S +50° 42' 53.5" P.A. 122 SEP 1.7 MAG 6.93,8.18 SP K3III: DIST. 434.78 PC (1418.25 L.Y.)

STF 1774: Wide white and blue 3 delta mag.
13H 40M 23.35S +50° 31' 09.4" P.A. 135 SEP 18.1 MAG 6.34,10.51 SP F7.7V DIST. 25.33 PC (82.63 L.Y.)

HU 644: !! Orange-red pair, near equal mag, split with seeing at 443x
13H 19M 45.58S +47° 46' 41.1" P.A. 84 SEP 0.64 MAG 9.11,9.87 SP K0 DIST. 10.71 PC (34.94 L.Y.)

STF 1776: Near equal white, well split
13H 41M 47.70S +46° 13' 11.2" P.A. 18 SEP 7.3 MAG 9.36,9.37 SP G0+G0 DIST. 152.21 PC (496.51 L.Y.)

Nights are too short this time of year, so it was not a long session.  The night of the 21st was excellent but I did not feel well so did not observe.  I'm finding I very much enjoy finding these Burnham pairs, they are often challenging and very rewarding.

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