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(IAAC) Obj: STF 450 - Inst: Celestar 8" SCT, fork mount
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Observation Poster: William L. Schart <wschart@hot.rr.com>
Observer: William L. Schart
Your skills: Intermediate (some years)
Date/time of observation: 2/8/02 8:38 pm CST
Location of site: Killeen, TX (Lat 31 07, Elev 600 ft)
Site classification: Suburban
Sky darkness: 4 <Limiting magnitude>
Seeing: 7 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Moon presence: None - moon not in sky
Instrument: Celestar 8" SCT, fork mount
Magnification: 78x, 160x
Filter(s): none
Object(s): STF 450
Category: Multiple star.
Class:
Constellation: Tau
Data: mag 7.1-9.1 size 6.6"
Position: RA 03:48 DEC 23:55
Description:
Easily split at low power. The primary might have been blue, but I wasn’t sure; the secodary was too faint for me to tell.
More or less to the south is a long chain of stars ending in an offset triagle of stars which sort of points to this pair, but in fact misses the mark some. On the other side is a y-shaped asterism of 4 bright stars, which appeared reversed in the SCT view.
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