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A short Cygnus session in excellent seeing


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Short due to a lot of variable high cloud. Seeing was as good as it gets with Albireo looking spectacular at x198 in the 102mm. On to the session then -

Region    ω Cyg region
    
Date    from 22:30 27/08/2022 to 02:45 28/08/22
Scope    Starfield 102mm f/7 ED
Eyepieces    42mm LVW, x19; With TV 2.5 Powermate: 32mm Plössl, x56; 18mm ortho, x99, 12.5mm ortho, x143; 9mm ortho, x198.
Conditions    excellent seeing, extremely poor transparency – mag 3.6 in the direction of Lyra
    
Σ2261    Even pair at x99
OOΣ208    Very wide uneven pair at x56
Σ2707    Wide at x56. Unrelated star mag 8.7 close to the south
Arg39    Wide, slightly uneven pair at x56
Σ2732    Very uneven, seen well at x198
Σ2681    A-C wide and uneven, easy at x56; B very challenging at Mag 10.6 in these conditions despite a good 7.1" separation. Just glimpsed B at x143.
 

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