did i see siriusis pup star last night

[faulksy]

i have heard a few disccusions on this site about sirius pup star so last night i had a look.

armed with my 9mm bgo i put serius in the centre of my fov, couldnt see anything,slewed accross so that sirius was just out side my field stop and i could see a star to the right of it, it wasnt in line with sirius it was either above or below cant remmember now, but it was about 4 sirius diameters out. do you think i saw it. should also say it wasnt very bright, similar to polaris companion

bare in mind when i say it was to the right im using a sct

[wxsatuser]

Where to see the Pup.

http://www.arksky.org/ref_guides/sirius.html

[faulksy]

maybe then, funny how I moved Sirius just past the field stop like the link suggested. thanks for posting

[John]

The charts shown in that link are accurate so, if the star you saw was in that position and around 8 arc seconds from Sirius A then it might well have been the Pup star.

As a guide to the separation, Rigel has a 9th magnitude companion star which is around the same distance from the brighter primary star that the Pup is from Sirius but the Rigel pair is a lot easier to split.

It's a good achievement to see the Pup star - I've only managed it with my 12" dob of all my scopes.

[faulksy]

The charts shown in that link are accurate so, if the star you saw was in that position and around 8 arc seconds from Sirius A then it might well have been the Pup star.

As a guide to the separation, Rigel has a 9th magnitude companion star which is around the same distance from the brighter primary star that the Pup is from Sirius but the Rigel pair is a lot easier to split.

It's a good achievement to see the Pup star - I've only managed it with my 12" dob of all my scopes.

do you think I seen it then john from my description, and the culprits that I was on about discussing the pup was you and alan pots   

[John]

At the moment the Pup star lies just a little to the North of due East from Sirius A. I recall seeing it as a faintish pinpoint of light situated in the fringes of the scattered light from Sirius A and, in my undriven dob, trailing the bright star as it drifted across the field of view. The Pup came and went a bit as the seeing fluctuated as it's pretty low down when viewed from the UK.