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Hi fellow observers!
Well I'm pleased to say that I finally split Beta Muscae last night! Seeing was excellent and Beta Muscae was pretty high up, these factors no doubt assisted me greatly.
I used my 3.5mm Saxon SWA eyepiece in my 10 inch dob for 343x. I detected two perfect, equally matched, blue balls of light extremely close together. Using my 2x barlow for 686x confirmed the split with a very tiny black line seperating them. Perfect airy disks surrounded the two stars. Woohoo! I was very pleased to finally split this tough double. At 0.8" this is my tightest split yet, and the first time I have split a sub 1" star.
Clear Skies
Joe
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