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(IAAC) Obj: Iota Ori - Inst: 10" F4.8 Equatorial GP/DX
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Observation Poster: Barry Sharpe <barry.sharpe@btinternet.com>
Observer: Barry Sharpe
Your skills: Beginner (< one year)
Date/time of observation: 29th December 2001 21:32UT
Location of site: Welwyn Garden City (Lat 53:27:00, Elev 02:31:00)
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 5 <Limiting magnitude>
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 and 10mm
Filter(s): None
Object(s): Iota Ori
Category: Other.
Class: None
Constellation: Orion
Data: mag 2.77 size
Position: RA : DEC :
Description:
Iota Ori is a very bright star and very pleasing to observe with it's
very distinctive blue tinge. Whilst observing with my 25mm eyepiece i
can't help but think that this should be noted as a cluster group. Asd
i can make out 23 stars in my FOV. I am unable to split this in my
25mm and my 10mm eyepiece. However, whilst at the eyepiece i do note a
very, very faint close star with almost no shine to it at all. This
very faint star is close to Iota i estimate mag 10 maybe even 11. I
notice that i can easily pair up other stars in the FOV especially
those on either side of Iota to the east and west.
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