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Originally Posted by §AB
YAY you got sketches  Doug, your sketch of Sirius shows the pup at a 90º angle to the arrow marked "west", in other words, north or south of the main star. The pup is actually almost exactly due east of Sirius and one way to conform a sighting is by letting Sirius cross the FOV - if you can see a tiny dot "following" it, that is the pup. I suspect you mave have seen an internal reflection in your EP. These can infact look *very* convincing! Btw, neat handwriting :p
It was a good night of seeing, wasnt it?  |
Thanks for taking a look. I'll take that as "negative" then
This star (I'm sure it wasn't a reflection) did follow Sirius out of the FOV, but it wasn't directly behind it. If Sirius was exiting due west, and due east was opposite, I'd put this star as ENE. i.e. almost due east, but not quite.
But yes, very steady last night. Sirius was just a big steady glare, not flickering at all. Hence I could spot this candidate and hold it. I'd never have seen it if the seeing was normal.