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Tonight my targets were multiple double stars: Elipson Equuleus and Beta Equuelus.
Using a Vixen 115mm, Elipson was easlily split with a 24mm EP. An enequal but interesting pair. The brigter star is apparently binary, but there was no hint of this with an 11mm EP, and my understanding is that it is of very small seperation atm.
Beta Equuelus was really of no appeal, being a bright star with a few faint, wide field stars that may have been once loged to check for possilble binary motion.
I also checked out Zeta Aquarius and found to my delight that again, if on locking the RA axis on an EQ mount, I could drift accross to te Helix Nebula. This is a large, faint nebula that shows best at low power: I could see it with EPs of 3 & 4mm exit pupils.
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