[mozzie (Peter)]

i finally had some viewing last night with clear days and cloud around 8pm every night you soon get sick off it...the clouds did come and go last night and the sky was soupy and thick seeing was a 6 out of 10...
the moon is filling up and giving us bright nights and when it's like this i love to look at double stars...i was using my 14"lx200 with mag of 102x and 209x i do have a 6.7mm around 550x it doesn't resolve the stars to well but you can see the split on some really close one's i didn't have that eyepiece last night it was in the house with my solar scope.i did manage to split down to 3.4" which i thought was pretty good and all the stars were in lepus and i was using sissy haas book on double stars....
i looked at around 16 pairs being able to see most but one or two where under 2" and i was unsure of seeing the split...
some highlights were:
s 476 :05h19.3m -18d31' 24.5" sep 2 nice 6th mag stars bright white and a third star beside and all 3 formed a straight line.
38 lep 05h20.4m -21d14' 4.1" sep pale yellow and white split at 209x
a lep 05h32.7m -17d49' a36" split with 2 faint 11mag companions at 209x a was surprised to see both these faint stars
y lep 05h44.5m -22d27' a fantastic pair a bright yellow and a brick red,what a surprise when first sighted..
i also tried to see sirius b the pup but was unable to spot again-one day i'll see it...
if you enjoy double stars have a look at the one's above.