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Re: (IAAC) Obj: Beta Ori - Inst: 10" f4.8 Equatorial GP/DX



Keep trying Barry. It took me several times, but U finallky managed to 
split this with a 6" Dob, so it is well in range for your 10".

William

On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 06:38 AM, Apache User wrote:

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> Observation Poster: Barry Sharpe <barry.sharpe@btinternet.com>
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> Observer: Barry Sharpe
> Your skills: Beginner (< one year)
> Date/time of observation: 29th December 2001 21:32UT
> Location of site: Welwyn Garden City UK (Lat 53:27:00, Elev 02:31:00)
> Site classification: Suburban
> Sky darkness: 5 <1-10 Scale (10 best)>
> Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
> Moon presence: Great - full or very near object
> Instrument: 10" f4.8 Equatorial GP/DX
> Magnification: 25mm / 10mm
> Filter(s): None
> Object(s): Beta Ori
> Category: Other.
> Class: Star
> Constellation: Orion
> Data: mag 0.12  size
> Position: RA :  DEC :
> Description:
> Beta Ori is a very blue and very bright star, I am unable to split with 
> 25mm or 10mm eyepiece. However Beta Ori has a very distinctive hue to 
> it. With rigel centered in my FOV @ 25mm eyepiece i note 2 stars to the 
> west very dim one the most northern of the two seems yellow in colour 
> poss G type star 3 smaller stars appear in the north of Beta ori very 
> faint unable to make out colour. Beta Ori spetral type: B8Iae HR Number 
> 1713.
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