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11 hours ago, John said:

...Sirius B was showing relatively easily at 198x and up so I've been having a go at Proxima B which is even harder - the B star is just 4.5 arc seconds away from the Proxima A and the brightness difference is massive again - 10,000x difference !

Didn't get a sniff of it even at 600x but I'm not surprised really 😉

 

Did anyone spot my deliberate mistake here ? :rolleyes2:

What I should have said was Procyon B of course. Proxima B is Proxima Centauri B which I have to leave to our southern hemisphere friends to spot :grin:

Must warm my brain up a bit more before posting ..... :rolleyes2:

 

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21 hours ago, John said:

Did anyone spot my deliberate mistake here ? :rolleyes2:

What I should have said was Procyon B of course. Proxima B is Proxima Centauri B which I have to leave to our southern hemisphere friends to spot :grin:

Must warm my brain up a bit more before posting ..... :rolleyes2:

 

I believed that you said Proxima Centauri A and B ... I didn't think that it wouldn't rise in your Northernly latitude 😃 ... But no worries John !  your observing reports especially double star reports are a joy to read ! 

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