The Draco Challenge!

[Mr Spock]

OK, it's a self made challenge, but, using the (home-made) map below, I wanted to get every double on it in a single night.  Challenge accepted - and completed!

Date    from 23:00 19/08/22 to 01:30 20/08/2022
Scope    Starfield 102mm f/7 ED
Eyepieces    42mm LVW, x19 (as a finder); Barlowed eyepieces: 22mm LVW, x60; 13mm LVW, x102; 8mm LVW, x165; 5mm LVW, x264 
Conditions    good to poor seeing, average to poor transparency – mag 4.5 in the direction of Lyra - 4.0 after 01:00
    
Σ2261    White star with a very faint companion, best seen at x102
Σ2271    Slightly uneven white pair, x165
Σ2229    Light orange primary with a faint, white secondary, x165
ES 2661    Orange and white pair, easy at x60. Listed as 8.5/9.4 but the secondary seemed fainter than that - maybe below 10
Σ2180    White and orange pair, x264
Σ2167    Very faint secondary seen with averted vision, x165
Σ2164    Uneven white pair, x102
Σ2142    Bright primary with a tiny speck close by, x165
 β 627    Very challenging! A bright, white primary with a 4 mag fainter bluish secondary only 2.0" away. Good, clean split at x264 in moments of good seeing.
Σ I 35     Very wide, bright pair, x60
Σ2146    Uneven pair at x165 with a similar third star quite wide
Σ2130    Brilliant even white pair x165 - like one half of the double-double
Σ2078    Bright uneven pair, with another bright companion quite wide x165
Σ2278    Very wide and even - seen at x19!
Σ2323    White primary with a fainter secondary, with another some distance away, x165
Σ2368    A tight, even pair best seen at x264. Listed as 1.8" so tightest of the session but easily split.
OΣ 344    Very uneven, tight pair, proving elusive. Glimpses of the secondary at x165. Checking the listing show the secondary in the right place so I'll count this as a success.
Σ2277    White, uneven pair - easy split at x60
OΣ 343    Another tough one. Again only glimpses, but in the right place, x165
Σ2293    Yet another very delicate companion. I think deteriorating seeing was responsible for this and the previous few being tougher than expected.
OΣ 352    A very easy, slightly uneven pair to finish, x60. Colourless - like so many in this region.

[Knighty2112]

Nice haul. Been meaning to do more doubles observations, but not got around to it yet. Do you use a manual mount or a goto mount to track these down?

[Mr Spock]

5 hours ago, Knighty2112 said:

Do you use a manual mount or a goto mount to track these down?

EQ5 with drive -

The biggest help is to make my own maps with left and right reversed to match the view through the diagonal.