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Introducing Almak
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2011 Jan 20, 18:35 EST
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2011 Jan 20, 18:35 EST
So I was looking for an unusual star to shoot and noticed on my Skymate Pro
program that the auxiliary star Almak was going to be transiting
to the north during twilight. Having never shot Almak
at all, I decided to try an ex-meridian of this star.
Almak was a bit hard to see and I had to wait until later twilight to
see it, but there it was in my scope, just where it should have been.
The hardest part of this sight, which I did using tables, was
finding Almak in the NA. I never liked trying to find them in the star
tables in the back, but it's good practice.
Here's the data:
Ex-meridian of the auxiliary star Almak.
Time: 20h 05m 20s
Lat 7d 10.6'S
Long 72d 28.6E
HoE 106 ft
ZD -6
Hs 40d 36.8'
My latitude by observation was 7d 11.4'S which isn't too bad
considering the time of observation on a dim star.
Jeremy
