doubles tonight

[kniclander]

I must be getting lazy because these days I tend to go out without any books or charts and just look at what I know. Tonight the seeing was fantastic here when the clouds cleared at around 8.30 and I took out the big dob with an 8mm Burgess Optical planetary e/p (x150, 60 deg AFOV).

I looked at polaris - primary very white; secondary a pretty blue

trapezium (of course) - e star pretty clear; f not so

alnitak - the little snowman was there again

castor - bright, clean, white

the lovely yellow one in leo (as it drifts across the FOV it looks like the smaller one is following the bigger one - aaaaah)

sigma orionis - the best of a good night - the three "white" stars are all slighly different shades - it's like choosing wallpaper

cor caroli - disappointing colours - possibly a bit low in the sky and seeing had gone right off by now so i went in and saw Spain's second goal - good side, good evening's observing.

Dan

[almach]

Sounds like you had a great night, nice one.

I'll have to read up on the "snowman" as I have no idea what that means :?

[kniclander]

snowman is my own description of how the little star just looks like a bump on the side of the big star

[almach]

snowman is my own description of how the little star just looks like a bump on the side of the big star

Ok, I've looked up which one that is and will check it out next time the weather is kind to me. At 2.4" speration however, i suspect it may be beyond me and hence look like a snowman with his head cut off