set out last night under an almost full moon to split some stars. thursdat night has become my regular viewing night now
one of the MOC objects actually has a double sitting right next to it, the pavo glob (its a starfish apparently). this double was bought to my attention by John B in this thread
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...9&postcount=12 .
the star in question is actually quite easy to find and splits at about 114x tho more magnification will show it better. the star you are looking for will show as a bright star at the edge of the glob and for those who look at everything up-side-down like me it'll be above.
after splitting this i star hopped around for a while looking at nothing in particular then decided to split antares... the seeing wasn't any where near up to it, but i notice in my finder a small triangle of stars and consulting my chart found out it wasn't even in scorpius, it was in ophiuchus.
Rho Ophiuchus is considered a multiple star of 4 parts (A B C D). parts A, C, and D form a very nice looking triangle. A is the brightest of the three so i decided to bump up the magnification a bit on it. This revealed A to be composed of 2 parts of near equal magnitude. A and B Rho Oph showed on my telescope at 114x to be a white, some people see them as golden but the seeing was bad so I saw white
C and D are bluish.
I recomend both of these to those who havent seen them before
