View Single Post
  #1  
Old 15-02-2019, 08:56 AM
bojan's Avatar
bojan
amateur

bojan is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Mt Waverley, VIC
Posts: 6,943
Thumbs down Procyon B... no joy last night

Last night weather in melbourne was pretty good, so I tried my luck (both visual and photographical) on Procyon B....


While Sirius B was quite easy target for my C11 at ~300x (despite dusk and Moon), Procyon B remained hidden in the glare from primary (it is ~4" away).


I am thinking now about making some sort of contraption to mechanically remove the primary glare from interferring with observation of B-component...
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (Procyon-b.png)
4.7 KB48 views
Reply With Quote