Sunday, May 29, 2011
Hygeia verified
After a week of rain, lightning, and clouds of doom, we finally had a clear day today. Tonight was perfect with temp in the 70's, cloudless, moonless, and enough wind to keep the bugs away. It was a bit gusty at times but not bad. Saturn was particularly clear and well out of Leo now. I could clearly see Titan and Rhea and was so flabbergasted to see ANY moon of Saturn I didn't notice little Dione on the other side of Saturn. I'm not sure why I've never noticed Titan before except that perhaps it has always been hidden by Saturn's glare. It was very noticeable with my 10x ep. The goal of tonight though was to verify that I really did see Hygeia last Sunday. I looked at my former position and sure enough there was a missing 'star'. It was a bit harder to find this time since the power was off and CdC wasn't available. I used the finder in S&T and noticed that there seemed to be an extra 9th magnitude 'star' in the field near N28, a bright double between Alpha and Sigma Libra. It seemed to form an isosceles triangle with SAO183113 and SAO183119 with the former being the other base and the latter being the apex. CdC put it's position a bit further west but the orbital elements are a bit old.
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