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Originally Posted by Suzy
Thank you Joe for the warm welcome.
That's a nice list, nicely followed by the maps. You've done such great work here. There's a fantastic book I have, which you may be interested in looking up, it's called Sky & Telescope - Stargazing Series - Double Stars for Small Telescopes, by Sissy Hass. It tells you all the info incl. what they look like (lots of Hartung's obs notes!). I just looked up Orion and wow 5 pages!
Hey, you forgot the showcase of them all!
Theta Ori - The Trapezium.
I used to do some of our monthly observing challenges and I can respect & understand how much work goes into these challenges, so good on ya! I used to break mine down into easy, medium & difficult. I found it more fun doing a challenge per constellation, you get to have a more personal experience with it, it's very rewarding. I used to take ideas on one thread (such as this) and then post the actual challenge on a separate thread so it can be easily searched for in the future.
I've been wanting to get into double star observing for a long time, uptil now it's only been the odd one here and there.
It's been enjoyable reading people reports on here.
I should give this a shout out on our fb page  , hopefully give it a bit more publicity to attract more observers. I'll do it when the list is ready, I presume it'll be a March challenge  . |
Once again, thanks for your input Suzy.
Yes I'm well aware of Sissy Haas and her wonderful DOUBLES publication.
And as Eugene mentions Bruce MacEvoys wonderful publications and work on Doubles.
Certainly thats what we plan to do with our next list..VIZ ..
Post list here ,then actually start reports in the proper Report section...some jumped the gun before we did this..so left all for now, as is.
Trapezium ..reluctantly left out!
Looking forward to your possible participation in this endevour..and of course some suggestions by yourself and all, when we post next months list to be ultimately amended .
With thanks bigjoe.