Wednesday, August 14, 2019

CrB doubles

Last night had pretty good, but not perfect, seeing. I ended up leaving the scope at full 20-inch aperture to. As usual I stayed at 667x throughout. There is a high pressure system over the Bay Area, meaning hot days and nights, decent seeing (except for local turbulence from rooftop and other materials releasing their built-up heat during the night) but also poor transparency as haze and pollutants are trapped in a bubble. It doesn't help I'm at the bottom of that bubble at 28' elevation -- if only I lived on a mountain! I stayed in CrB mostly to keep out of the roof currents. I observed until about midnight, and had looks at Saturn and the moon, but seeing was poor mainly because of roof currents.

My pointing accuracy was not very good; I think because I have poor choices for alignment stars and there was not enough difference in altitude (I used Altair and Arcturus).

STF 2044 AB: 20" 333x: nice orange and slightly blue stars, well split, near equal
16h 24m 10.41s +37° 02' 11.9" P.A. 341 sep 8.2 mag 8.43,8.79 Sp K0 dist. 90.33 pc (294.66 l.y.)

H5 38 AB = 23 Her: 20" 333x. wide pair, white and 3 delta mag pair. spiky diffraction from the boundary fan

BU 951 AB-C, 20" 667x: Wow seeing is amazing getting airy disks 20 inch 667x, orange and blue stars, very nice split, dare I say wide [AB is near equal 0.1" pair, try again to notice out of round]16h 23m 32.23s +33° 21' 27.8" P.A. 32 sep 1 mag 9.29,10.10 Sp G0

KU 53 AB : 20" 667x: Double-double in field, this is the equal pair brighter white, wide. The other is faint, 1 to half delta mag, closer together.
16h 22m 54.07s +38° 15' 28.7" P.A. 49 sep 5.3 mag 10.40,11.10 Sp F8

PKO 15: 20" 667x This is the fainter pair discussed in the last entry (KU 53). Faint, well split but closer. A star light orange, B bluish white. faint a bit hazy.
16h 22m 38.86s +38° 18' 29.2" P.A. 32 sep 2.5 mag 10.98,12.19

Nu 1 CrB: STFA 29: nice bright orange finder split. AD is a wide faint star in the scope 20" 667x. seeing beginning to hurt.

COU 981: 20" 667x: Marginal with poor transparency and nearly full moon. It's a little too hazy to be sure, but there is certainly an elongation in that haze, or rather the haze is large enough to contain the two stars.

HU 1172: 20" 667x: nice near equal well spit pair, whitish yellow
16h 18m 47.11s +31° 53' 51.0" P.A. 327 sep 1.8 mag 10.02,10.06 Sp F5

TDS9841: 20" 667x: Very faint pair but with averted vision could notice and then hold direct. Half delta mag, wide
16h 19m 51.32s +27° 27' 38.5" P.A. 350 sep 2.6 mag 12.49,13.32

HJ 584: 20" 677x: A star is orange, B a little blue, faint. Good wide split, obvious.
16h 17m 44.07s +39° 14' 25.0" P.A. 200 sep 15.4 mag 10.16,13.47 Sp G0

A 348: 20" 667x: tried hard but did not get...
16h 16m 05.43s +29° 36' 27.4" P.A. 153 sep 1 mag 9.03,10.92 Sp F5 dist. 118.76 pc (387.4 l.y.)

STF 2032 = Sigma CrB: 20" 667x: AB nice bright half delta mag wide. two more stars in system, one (AC) closer fainter, other (AD) further away.
16h 14m 40.85s +33° 51' 31.0" P.A. 239 sep 7.3 mag 5.62,6.49 Sp G0V+G1V dist. 21.08 pc (68.76 l.y.)

POP 103: 20" 667x: Seeing and haze getting worse. B star noticed & seen better averted vision but can hold direct. Wide split, 2 delta mag.
16h 13m 59.63s +35° 10' 16.1" P.A. 54 sep 3.9 mag 10.75,13.30

STF 2029: 20" 677x slightly yellow and blue stars, wide, still see airy disks.
16h 13m 47.82s +28° 43' 55.9" P.A. 188 sep 6.1 mag 7.95,9.62 Sp F4IV dist. 133.16 pc (434.37 l.y.)

HJ 260: 20" 667x: wide faint near equal, just like the data says
16h 11m 50.72s +37° 25' 00.3" P.A. 27 sep 19.8 mag 11.44,13.34

STT 305 AB: 20" 667x: yellow orange and blue, wide, 2 delta mag Pretty. [Did not notice 13th mag AC]
16h 11m 39.60s +33° 20' 33.8" P.A. 263 sep 5.7 mag 6.44,10.17 Sp K2III dist. 154.56 pc (504.17 l.y.)

COU 1276 AB 20" 667x: ! Good find, B star only visible averted vision, flashes out obvious and clear.
16h 08m 52.28s +37° 58' 00.8" P.A. 55 sep 2.7 mag 10.95,12.90 Sp F8

STF 2011 AB 20" 667x: Fine pair, 2 delta mag, blue white and dull b almost brown.
16h 07m 38.27s +28° 59' 43.6" P.A. 67 sep 2.7 mag 7.93,10.23 Sp A8IV dist. 307.69 pc (1003.68 l.y.)

WDS J16071+3507A = PPM 79056; 20" 667x: 1 delta mag faint pair, wide, not sure I would have picked it out as double.

HJ 581: 20" 667x: faint wide near equal.
16h 04m 14.01s +32° 22' 10.9" P.A. 56 sep 21.2 mag 11.96,12.05

TDT1045: 20" 667x: very marginal. very faint star feels not round
18h 46m 18.10s +08° 20' 43.0" P.A. 301 sep 0.9 mag 11.72,11.84

RST4605 20" 667x: ! Very, very fine, faint, split, quarter delta mag. Very tough considering proximity to nearly full moon with poor transparency. Nice!
18h 50m 58.96s -02° 38' 02.2" P.A. 141 sep 0.9 mag 11.25,11.55

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