Mu Librae

[John]

Just a short note that I picked up this lovely binary star while viewing Jupiter this evening. It's above and a little to the W of the giant planet tonight. The separation is 1.9 arc seconds and the componants are magnitude 5.6 and 6.6 respectively. Very nice from 200x and upwards with my ED120 refractor

 

[chiltonstar]

A very nice pair indeed John - I had a look today on the way past. The seeing was about 4/5, but patchy as the pair were over my neighbours roof.

Nicely split at x270 (180 Mak) with clear space between them, both components blue-white although I thought one a little more blue perhaps. At x190, they were split but close. Nice to see interlocking diffraction rings!

Chris