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Just happened to trip across this post whilst scanning the 'new posts' listings. Timely in that I managed to observe the Antares companion last week at the SPSP. Was lucky in that a neighboring observer put me on to this object (thanks Brett) as I did not realise that Antares was a double star.
Observing details are a Meade 12" truss tube dob and 8mm 2" Ethos eyepiece. Object elevation at the time was about 40 deg and seeing was rather 'bouncy'. Observing required watching the object for some minutes at the eyepiece and waiting for those moments of clear seeing when the companion would 'snap' into view. In my scope the companion was sitting very close to one of the diffraction spikes. I think that this turned out to be an advantage as there were four of us observing and we all confirmed the same object position.
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