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Originally Posted by N1
Last night, 7 September 2021. About 21:00 NZT. A superbely clean split at 240x with the 8" f/6 GSO dob and a Pentax XO5. Antares B sitting right on one of the spikes but still a beautiful turqoise pin prick. Lazy onshore breeze that had not seen land for 1000's of km. A lot of cloud and moisture but man the seeing through the gaps was phenomenal. All over in less than 5 minutes but that was worth putting the scope outside for. Need to make note of this weather pattern.
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It's been one of my absolute favourite doubles for about 50 years and I will never get tired of looking at it. IMO it is one of the night sky's showpiece targets that I put right up there with Omega Centauri, 47 Tuc, Eta Carina, M42, M83, NGC 253 and X-Velorum.
Cheers
John B