Orion doubles

[David P Osborne]

Took advantage of clear skies last night to put my new BSTs through their paces by trying for some of the doubles in this excellent past post on Orion 

Despite battling flood lights from neighbouring Jehovas Witness car park and neighbours security light was able to get good views of Meissa, Sigma Orionis, Alnitak and Mintaka from the list. The 12mm with and without barlow gave well defined views as did Myriad 9mm. I haven't spent a whole session searching for doubles before and really enjoyed the challenge and delight of just seeing these and imagining what it might be like to have one of these systems as your actual sun. There really is so much more to Orion when you start digging (or should that be looking/gazing )

[Paz]

Nice report. I found myself spending increasing amounts of time on doubles having not considered them at all when I started observing. Now they are a feature of most observing sessions. As you say it is ok nteresting to think about what they are and what if we had a system like them.