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Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob
Adrian, that is a huge achievement if you found it in such a small scope with CA issues as well. However,I am confused about your use of the clock for directions. The Pup should trail Sirius A in an undriven scope. If I am using the clock in the same manner as yourself, my observation was that it was at about at 7 o'clock position. Given that you saw it in your 12" reflector at the 11 o'clock position, I thought our observations were in agreement when you swap the up and down positions between at refractor and a reflector. (Left and right being unchanged of course).
However, you say that you saw it at 2o'clock in the refractor.
I am not saying that you did not see it, but was there anything else going on to confuse the directions; like did you have the star diagonal twisted to the side or something?
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Actually your right. I was thinking about another double that I split when I typed that. It was trailing at about 10 O'clock. But damn it was hard. Also to remember that the location of the Pup changes drastically between 7:30 PM and 10:30 PM at the moment. It looks like more than 90 degrees. I was observing for more than 3 hours last night and I looked at Sirius every hour. It could have been a false ID now that I think deeper about it. It was so difficult.