Popular Post Doc Posted November 26, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2017 Spent an enjoyable 2 hours observing at Wymeswold last night. Below is a little observing account of that night. Gamma Andromeda 10" sep, 2.5/5 mag, colour Blue and Yellow. 8 Andromeda 7.7" sep, 5/13 mag, the main star was red and the companion was very hard to see but I did get the occasional glimpse. Groombridge 34 Andromeda I tried to locate this one, in fact spent some time on it but couldn't find it. I don't know what went wrong here as i'm sure I was in the right area. Merarthim, Gamma Aries, 8" sep, 4.5/4.5 mag Lambda Aries, 37" sep, 5/5.7 mag Miram, Eta Perseus, 5.2"/28" Sep, I could see stars A and B and they were yellow and blue, there was star lower down which was C, 4/8/10 mag. Zeta Perseus, 13", 3/9 mag Iota Trianguluum, 4" 5/6.5 Try as I could I couldn't split this one, maybe the stars were as bright as each other and drowned each other out. Aldebaran Alpha Taurus 31"sep, 1/13.5 mag, Primary is red. This was pretty hard as it was lost in the glare but it did make the odd appearence. Double double in Lyra I could only do a peanut split of the components as I only had x70 to play with (12mm Clave), the split appeared as a peanut split. Zeta Lyra, 43" sep, 4.5/5.5 mag Castor Aplha Gemini, 2" sep, 2.5/3.5 mag, A peanut split. Trapezium Orion only split to four components Mintake Orion, 52" sep, 2/6.5 mag Regal Beta Orion, 9.4" sep, 0/7 mag Meissa Lambda Orion, quite a few stars in this system. I didn't make notes on this one. Also done quite a few of the regular Messiers. I must make better notes as well as I didn't write down any colours or position angles (PA) of the stars observed. All in all a great night out. philjay, +seven_legs, +Streetbob and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Streetbob Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Don't forget you also found M74 (it was 74 wasn't it). I'd never of found it myself. Thanks for the obs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 No it was M78 Doug. I think I did call it M74 but it's in Orion it's M78 +Streetbob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Great report Mick, a bit of double star bothering there mate, was that to push the eyepieces and see how they did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 It was indeed Martyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Reading your footer, have you seen M6 and M7? They are tough from darn sarf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Phil those are a couple I've not seen yet. We are to far north to really see them, they are always in the murk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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