An 18" scope in your driveway? Impressive. I find the 10 is about it for
me from home.
At 7/27/2004, you wrote:
>On Jul 27, 2004, at 11:03 AM, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
>>The scope is still out back, where I will continue in a different
>>constellation tonight, with a bigger moon.
>
>Before you leave Aquila, here are a few more goodies I looked at last
>summer from my driveway --
>
>· 2404 = ADS 11750
>18 50 45.4 +10 58 33
>V = 6.9/8.1; Separation 3.5"
>
>18" (7/13/03): striking, fairly bright white pair. Fairly close at 3.5"
>but easy split at 161x.
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>· 2449 = ADS 12037
>19 06 23.0 +07 09 20
>V = 7.2/7.9; Separation 8"
>
>18" (7/13/03): bright, fairly well-matched attractive white pair at 8".
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>
>23 Aql = ·2492 = ADS 12289
>19 18 32.5 +01 05 06
>V = 5.3/9.3; Separation 2.9"
>
>18" (7/13/03): excellent mag contrast and fairly tight! (less than
>3"). Nice split at 161x. A third mag 12 star is at 11" making this a triple.
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>· 2644 = ADS 13506
>20 12 35.1 +00 52 01
>V = 6.8/7.1; Size 3.1"
>
>18" (7/13/03): well-matched white/white pair. Nice split at 215x.
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>Steve G
Received on Tue Jul 27 13:29:48 2004