Under a recent thread 'Star Catalogues", there was a discussion on the naming of stars, especially towards double stars nomenclature.
I then posted a
draft copy of a double star text I have been working on for a little while. This contains a useful useful catalogue (attached) of "
350 Bright Southern Stars", which might give observers targets to seek out. The document lists these double stars in order of either; R.A., separation, constellation or declination.
However, I have removed the attached "Constellation Section", and made it a separate document. This is useful, as it give the culmination times, when double stars are on the meridian - the best time to observe double - in an attempt to minimise poor seeing that makes pairs difficult to resolve. (I did this as their is a limit of 500k for pdf's.
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Since doing this, I have made in the last day a very significant update, which now has a 'flash' coverpage, and some general text on double stars that may be of use by visual observers here. This document is now 470K, and is 50-pages long…..
I would appreciate very much any possible additions or useful comments that might improve future versions of these documents.
Hope this is of some use….
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Note: Another general list in IIS is "110 Southern Sky Doubles" is by Stephen Saber, but has no PA's I.e.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-357-0-0-1-0.html
Note 2: A 400 southern pairs, etc. mentioned in the text, I do hope to complete in coming weeks.
I will hopefully use this thread for update as they come to hand. (Hence, the starting of this new thread UNDER AN OBVIOUS TITLE!)
(Iceman might like to up load this to the Projects and Article Section, if he see fit!!!)