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Old 19-07-2019, 04:19 PM
SteveG (Steve)
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From a northern perspective, there's a triple double in Cygnus discovered by William Lassell in 1857 at 21 34 50 +32 04 30.

In this case, the three pairs are separated by only 1' to 2' and the individual pairs have separations of 12", 19" and 22" and magnitudes of 10.6/11.9, 11.8/13.5, 12.1/12.1. So, not really bright but easily resolved at low power in any scope that shows the mag 13.5 star. WDS has all the components.

Also a 21" pair of mag 11 stars is ~10' NE, so could be taken as a quadruple double!
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