Tuesday, August 1, 2017

CrB doubles

Last night was pretty special.  About as perfect seeing as I've ever had; hardly any diffraction and sometimes just steady disks.  Plus an amazing surprize double-double.  Really great and satisfying session.  And I finally saw the owl who often screeches in the sky above me, but I never had a glimpse of before!

STF 1936.  552x.  Pretty faint near equal wide white pair through finder.  In scope one star splits into a close double
SAO 83779, 15h21m51.0s,+26°58'47",CrB,10.1,69°

STF 1941.  552x  !! Faint, very close equal pair, ~1.5". Nice!
HIP 75519, 15h26m27.4s,+26°34'22",CrB,9.0,73°,

STF 1950.  552x.  Pretty orange and pale orange, 2 delta mag, ~4"
HIP 75883, 15h30m43.7s,+25°27'18",Ser,9.1,73°

HO 399.  552x.  Relatively bright star with very faint pair, AV to notice, ~4" separation and 4-5 delta mag
HIP 77975, 15h56m08.7s,+29°29'32",CrB,10.5,75°

STF 2011.  552x.  White and reddish 3 delta mag, ~2".  Other stars in the field might be part of a system
HIP 79010, 16h08m21.1s,+28°57'21",CrB,9.5,77°

STF 2022.  552x.  Yellow orange and blue pair.  B is much fainter, 3-4 delta mag, ~1.5"
HIP 79441, 16h13m29.3s,+26°37'54",CrB,9.1,76°

STF 2029.  552x.  Nice red-orange and B ~5" 2 delta mag.
HIP 79533, 16h14m30.4s,+28°41'34",CrB,9.6,77°

STF 1935.  552x.  Faint wide pair, 1 delta mag.
SAO 64640, 15h20m55.7s,+30°38'23",CrB,10.0,71°

STT 302.  552x.  Seems to be a triple star.  One pair fainter and pretty close, 2”.  Brighter star much further away, and a triangle with a medium bright star.
STT 302B, 15h55m38.9s,+34°19'24",CrB,10.1,79°

STT 305.  552x.  Orange star and faint blue B, wide.
HIP 79350, 16h12m19.6s,+33°18'16",CrB,10.1,79°

STF 1973.  552x.  Wide, 1 delta magnitude white.
HD 141186, 15h47m02.3s,+36°24'20",CrB,8.8,76°

STF 1965.  552x.  Nice bright white pair, wide, half a delta mag.
Zeta 1 CrB, 15h40m01.9s,+36°35'14",CrB,5.9,76°

STF 1964 & HU 1167.  552x.  At first only noticed the fainter pair, the Struve, a near equal pair about 3" separation.  Brighter star further separated suggested it was in the system.  Then seeing became perfect, and I noticed a much fainter pair to the bright star, reddish color, about 1" separation, 3-4 delta mag.  Yes!  A double double.  Magnificent.
HD 139691, 15h38m54.0s,+36°11'50",CrB,9.0,75°

Kappa CrB 552x.  Egg shape.
15h51m53.7s,+35°36'36",CrB,4.8,78°

-- White owl screech, I look above and finally see it, pale against the sky, flying overhead about 50 feet up. --

Nu 2 CrB = STFA 29.  552x  Wide separation carbon star pair.
16h23m09.2s,+33°40'11",CrB,5.4,82°

STF 2044.  552x.  Fine faint disks, nearly equal mag, wide separation, white.
 HD 148086, 16h24m48.1s,+37°00'20",CrB,8.7,83°

STF 1963.  552x.  Near equal white, ~6"
15h38m38.7s,+30°02'55",CrB,12.3,74°

STF 2032.  552x.  Nice wide white, ~1 delta mag.

STF2032C, 16h15m22.7s,+33°49'15",CrB,13.3,80°

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