Moon and variable star

[Saganite]

Just enjoying a superb moon, and right below it near the limb is V4190 I believe, a pulsating variable star 298 light years distant.A lovely spectacle.

[Saganite]

Now just being eclipsed, almost gone.

[Saganite]

And just for good measure, an airliner has just ripped across.

[Saganite]

The star has been briefly eclipsed, but is now visible again.

[Alan White]

You can see sky!
I must go have a look....

[furrysocks2]

1 hour ago, Saganite said:

The star has been briefly eclipsed, but is now visible again.

Occultation astronomy by proxy, love it!

[F15Rules]

No such luck here Steve...which scope were you using?

Dave

[Alan White]

11 hours ago, Alan White said:

You can see sky!
I must go have a look....

I did, it was clouded but with large enough gaps to use the binos for an hour,.

Thanks for the heads up, it was clear enough to see Andromeda as good as ever in 10x 50’s.

[Saganite]

1 hour ago, F15Rules said:

No such luck here Steve...which scope were you using?

Dave

Hi Dave,

It was quite cloudy, so I put out the 4" Celestron ED, that I bought from Chris( Lockie) a while back, and was using Binoviewers and a pair of 24 Pans, my standard set up of late in whichever scope. I only managed 25 minutes or so before cloud cover put an end to it but it was so worthwhile. What made it so good was that the whole of the Moon was sharp, and the star, at almost the edge of field, was a pinpoint.

Because the Moon was so low, it would have been obscured, from where Andromeda is positioned, by the bungalow behind me, but there was not enough time anyway, this was one of those " grab n go" opportunities.

 

Steve

 

 

[Saganite]

1 hour ago, Alan White said:

I did, it was clouded but with large enough gaps to use the binos for an hour,.

Thanks for the heads up, it was clear enough to see Andromeda as good as ever in 10x 50’s.

Glad that you that you managed  an hours observing Alan. The atmospheric stability was good up to about 130x