The double-double, Epsilon Lyrae, clouded out!
I decided to have a crack at this from Turn Left at Orion using my Startravel 80, it looked simple enough - a couple of stars right next to Vega, how could I not find that? Except, that is, for the massive cloud bank that had appeared across virtually the whole sky since I put my telescope out.
He waits, that's what he does. Tick follows tock follows tick. You get the picture. :clouds1:
Eventually I could see a gap forming on the horizon, and about twenty minutes later it arrived at Vega and I knew that now was the time, I had already seen the next cloud bank coming along sharp on the gap's heels.
From Vega I could see the two 'stars' that made up an equal triangle, and through the 25mm eyepiece I could clearly see that each 'star' was actually two stars each (one pair was wider than the other), I switched to the 10mm for a closer look at each pair but for the life of me I just could not split the double-double as described in the book! I guess the Startravel 80 just isn't up to it, and there may have been slightly poor seeing too. I thought for a moment that I did see double stars through averted vision, maybe I did or maybe it was just my blurry vision.
One for the 8SE I think!
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