recommend a few more doubles to look for

[proflight2000]

Hi all, any chance of listing a few of your favourite double stars to search around for? Binary of even multiples thanks

[Kain]

The double double in Lyra is always cool to look at.

Look at Epsilon Lyrae and you will find it

Kain

[Whippy]

I have been getting into doubles becuase they're good summer (ie: proper dark skies not needed) objects. Here's a few of my faves...

Albeiro

Rasalgethi (there's also a tight double near that takes high mags to split)

Cor Caroli

Almach

Mizar/Alcor

And of course the double/double

Tony..

[Andrew*]

is the double double here?

never seen it...

when Orion comes around there's a triple just below the belt. Sorry - that's the only one I know other than horse and rider :?

Andrew

[proflight2000]

There is an excellent resource site done by the US Navy astronomy unit at http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/wdstext.html#single which may be of interest.

There is also a double star list from the double star club at http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/dblstar/dblstar2.html love the internet suprising what you can find.

[barkis]

is the double double here?

never seen it...

when Orion comes around there's a triple just below the belt. Sorry - that's the only one I know other than horse and rider :?

Andrew

Yes Andrew. That is the double double Epsilon Lyra. E1 is 2.8 arc secs and E2 is 2.3 arc secs. When condition are right, and your scope has settled to equilibrium, they are quite easily seperated.

Ron.

[barkis]

Andrew.

Gamma Andromeda is a nice double. Orange and blue binary. Gamma Delphini. Yellow and Green nice pair. Gamma Airies is a nice fixed pair at Mag.8.2.

Most of the stars in the galaxy are double. I think one SGL's members is a double star officionado. I think it might be lunator. I apologize to him if I am incorrect in that.

Ron.

[Andrew*]

Andrew.

Gamma Andromeda is a nice double. Orange and blue binary. Gamma Delphini. Yellow and Green nice pair. Gamma Airies is a nice fixed pair at Mag.8.2.

Most of the stars in the galaxy are double. I think one SGL's members is a double star officionado. I think it might be lunator.

thanks a lot Ron - got to get into that...

Yep - Ian/Lunator's our double man.

Andrew

[lunator]

Hi Pf

The doubles mentioned here are all showpieces.

One of the best sorces of DS info in the Spirit of 33 website.

http://www.carbonar.es/s33/33.html

Be careful of the Astroleague data as there are errors in the data.

Rgds

Ian

[Cloudwatcher]

Cygnus is well placed at the moment and in addition to Albireo check out 61 Cygn' a 5th Mag yellowish orange double

and Omicron 1 Cygn' an optical double that looks like a triple. The pair consist of a yellow/orange star with with a smaller blue/green star close in to the West. The third component is blue/white and lies further out to the East. A nice subject for imaging. Still in Cygnus,Delta Cygn' is a close double worth a visit.

CW

[Astroman]

Algeiba (Beta) in Leo is good, but not right now. Gamma And is aka "Little Alberio" and is lovely. Zeta, Pi, Eta and Tau Bootes are all challenging doubles.