cotterless45 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Browsing through a monthly astro mag in my reading shop (Smiths),I noticed mention of 25 Canum Venaticorum. It struck a bell as I'd managed a peanut, until the other night using a 5.5mm Meade UWA in the 150 C6r to get a very pleasing split at x218. The split is 1.8, but there's some difference in magnitudes , as you will observe.Easier and most pleasant were,2 CNvCor CaroliΣ261I've always been very fond of this area, it's packed with galaxies , if you have the eyes and the skies,Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco-prunotto Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Ciao cotterless45, I've been there last night, see my post on CN website: http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/493686-25-canes-venatici-alkalurops/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cotterless45 Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Great post, great stars !Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perseus_m45 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Here you go fella's mike h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiltonstar Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 As the seeing was good to excellent this evening, I had another look with my 127mm Mak at 25 CVn.At x250, the two are split although the fainter star sits on a diffraction ring. Colours? Lemon primary, slightly cyan secondary?Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunator Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Nick, Chris good catch.I managed this at x180 in my 10" scope. I had the primary as yellow and the secondary having an orange tint.CheersIan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I managed to split 25 CVn with my ED120 at 256x and 300x despite murky skies this evening. Thats a 1st for me as far as I recall so thanks for the "heads up" Nick I won't try and work out colours in these murky conditions but the brightness difference is quite substantial.I also took a look Cor Caroli and Alkaurops as well with nice results.Thank goodness for these lovely doubles, it would have been a useless night for astronomy otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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