[ngcles]

Hi Orestis,

A good report mate and nice sketch.

Originally Posted by orestis

One question that i'd like to ask is that when your viewing something do you sometimes see sattelites go through the fov because i saw two on this night and many more other times.How many sattelites are there?

Yep, as others have already said, it happens frequently.

As for Rigel (Alpha Orionis) I find it interesting that the secondary star is basically the same sort of animal as Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris) -- only we're looking at Sirius from 8.6 ly and Rigel B is (for all intents and purposes) one-hundred times further away.

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/rigel.html

You can look-up the Iridium flares for your location at:

http://www.heavens-above.com/


Best,

Les D