26 june 2020

Frustrating night last night.  The forecast was for excellent transparency and good seeing, so I was prepared to stay out very late.  It was pretty much the opposite: marine haze turning to fog shutting me down early at 12:30am, and seeing that was poor even with the 8-inch mask.  I did what I could, observing mostly in northern Boötes & Hercules.  On the good side, I installed a wireless hand pad to the ServoCAT and the responsiveness is much improved over the wired version.  I'm really happy about that.

STF 1908 AB: 203; 333x: Wow! superfine B split with seeing, light orange stars. B is very faint next to A, a significant delta, >1" 
15H 04M 56.30S +34° 28' 02.7" P.A. 152 SEP 1.3 MAG 9.23,10.31 SP F8 DIST. 115.61 PC (377.12 L.Y.)

A 690 AB: 203; 333x: Very tough, seems fainter than 9th and 10th mag as given in SkyTools (and indeed it is, both fainter by another half mag), and also closer than 1".  With seeing only, significant delta mag, and very close, hairline only.
15H 09M 09.80S +28° 08' 48.2" P.A. 10 SEP 0.9 MAG 10.00,10.50 SP F8 DIST. 96.53 PC (314.88 L.Y.)

TDS 768 AB: 203; 333x: Very fine, light orange stars, just split as a hairline, significant mag difference, maybe 1 delta mag
15H 09M 58.47S +28° 06' 59.5" P.A. 12 SEP 0.9 MAG 10.17,10.62

HO 62 AB: 203; 205x: Equal white, close but nicely split ~1.5"
15H 20M 46.77S +34° 59' 00.8" P.A. 103 SEP 1.5 MAG 10.00,10.06 SP G5

A 1367 AB: 203; 333x: White stars, seeing needs to settle for the pair to flash, brighter with averted vision.  Hairline split in good seeing, snowman when seeing poor.  Did not notice AB-C, which is 13th mag 9"
15H 23M 16.44S +36° 18' 30.6" P.A. 156 SEP 0.6 MAG 10.96,11.01 SP G0

STF 1938 Ba-Bb: 203; 205x: Alkalurops. Nice! STFA 28 AB, A is very bright white and B is widely separated.  B has a near equal pair about ~5" separated
15H 24M 30.89S +37° 20' 52.5" P.A. 2.9 SEP 2.24 MAG 7.09,7.63 SP G0V DIST. 36.06 PC (117.63 L.Y.)


STF 1946 AB: 203; 205x: Easy light orange A and ~2 delta mag B, pretty wide ~8"
15H 27M 09.01S +39° 29' 35.5" P.A. 344 SEP 7.6 MAG 9.34,10.87 SP F5 DIST. 227.79 PC (743.05 L.Y.)

STF 1947 AB: 203; 205x: FL Boo. Near equal wide, no color noticed
15H 28M 09.87S +38° 21' 38.1" P.A. 26 SEP 6.8 MAG 9.98,10.39 SP K0 DIST. 109.41 PC (356.9 L.Y.)

COU 974 AB: 203; 205x: Faint bluish elongation, separated with seeing, very close, slight mag difference
15H 30M 33.20S +35° 04' 23.6" P.A. 338 SEP 1.5 MAG 10.59,11.32

STT 298 AB: 203; 205x: Fine but very good split ~1.5", yellow-white stars, slight mag difference.  AB-C wide, similar mag.  ** need to re-observe this is short period **
15H 36M 02.22S +39° 48' 08.9" P.A. 188 SEP 1.21 MAG 7.16,8.44 SP K2V DIST. 22.31 PC (72.78 L.Y.)

COU1444 AB: 203; 205x: With seeing, bluish near equal, nice split
15H 36M 19.03S +42° 59' 39.4" P.A. 310 SEP 1 MAG 10.58,11.50

STF 2084 AB: 203; 333x: Zeta Her.  Less good image than the other night, but with some fine focus and patience with the seeing I could recorded B's orientation for the short period project.
16H 41M 17.16S +31° 36' 09.8" P.A. 111.8 SEP 1.402 MAG 2.95,5.40 SP G1IV DIST. 10.72 PC (34.97 L.Y.)

BU 627 A-BC: 203; 333x: 52 Her. B seen quite well, though only with seeing when bright white A's diffraction settles.  B is a bluish disk ~2", very steady for a moment then lost again.  Looking too long direct seems to make B disappear, A overpowers one's vision, but with a little averted vision B comes back into view.  1977 year period.
16H 49M 14.21S +45° 58' 59.9" P.A. 40.5 SEP 2.12 MAG 4.84,8.45 SP A1V DIST. 55.25 PC (180.23 L.Y.)


A 1875 AB: 203; 333x: Very faint B ~3 delta mag, well separated ~3", with seeing
17H 00M 14.17S +43° 45' 15.2" P.A. 189 SEP 2.4 MAG 8.73,10.75 SP K0

STT 323 AB: 203; 205x: Easy yellow-white A and ~3 delta B, wide. Not physical
17H 05M 05.49S +46° 58' 01.7" P.A. 79 SEP 11.2 MAG 8.36,11.37 SP K3III DIST. 164.74 PC (537.38 L.Y.)

TDT 212 AB: 203; 333x: Faint elongation splits with seeing, near equal pair 
17H 05M 57.90S +46° 15' 53.6" P.A. 131 SEP 1.2 MAG 11.30,11.36

A 1644 AB: 203; 333x: Bluish, faint, slight mag difference, well split ~3"
17H 07M 47.13S +47° 27' 16.0" P.A. 211 SEP 2.3 MAG 10.37,11.56 SP G5

SLE 80 AB: 203; 333x: Faint near equal, wide.  Not physical
17H 08M 24.40S +46° 55' 55.3" P.A. 294 SEP 15 MAG 11.32,11.53

STF 2133 AB: 203; 333x: ~2 delta mag, wide ~5"
17H 08M 41.83S +49° 45' 19.3" P.A. 199 SEP 3.4 MAG 9.66,10.67 SP G0 DIST. 151.98 PC (495.76 L.Y.)

STF 2152 AB: 203; 333x: Equal pair, split with seeing, ~2"
17H 17M 45.83S +45° 35' 00.2" P.A. 238 SEP 2 MAG 9.79,9.89 SP F8

STF 2153 AB: 203; 333x: Near equal, ~2", white.
17H 17M 53.03S +49° 18' 18.5" P.A. 245 SEP 1.4 MAG 9.36,9.70 SP K0

STF 2164 AB: 203; 333x: Very light orange A and slightly bluish B, ~2 delta mag, wide.
17H 23M 44.61S +47° 16' 14.3" P.A. 13 SEP 9.3 MAG 8.16,9.81 SP F8 DIST. 84.82 PC (276.68 L.Y.)

A 2089 AB: 203; 333x" Blue and faint pair, slight magnitude difference, hairline split with seeing only
17H 24M 55.24S +47° 01' 18.1" P.A. 330 SEP 0.7 MAG 9.95,10.11 SP F5

STF 2177 AB: 203; 205x: Pretty ~2 delta mag, wide ~4".  A nice combination of magnitudes, B is
just bright enough to be seen, difficult but not too difficult.
17H 27M 48.32S +46° 25' 16.4" P.A. 134 SEP 3.7 MAG 9.20,10.70 SP F0

ES 1414 AB: 203; 205x: Faint, with a noticeable mag difference about half delta mag, pretty wide
17H 29M 54.49S +43° 34' 55.6" P.A. 228 SEP 7 MAG 10.95,11.40

HU 923 AB: 203; 333x: Near equal, slight mag difference, really tried hard to split with 205x but most I could get was tangent disks; with 333x I can get split but with seeing only
17H 34M 22.97S +49° 12' 51.4" P.A. 105 SEP 0.9 MAG 9.49,9.90 SP G0

ES 2660 AB: 203; 205x: Easy wide, white, near equal
17H 37M 13.60S +43° 08' 52.5" P.A. 154 SEP 9.4 MAG 10.16,10.16 SP G

ES 1257 AB: 203; 205x: ! Very cool.  First noticed is a wide pair same mag (AC) but there's a close pair to the B star (BC) one of them, near equal ~3" (not physical!)
17H 38M 13.95S +45° 00' 23.3" P.A. 297 SEP 2.5 MAG 10.45,10.90

STF 2210 AB: 203; 205x: White A and two delta B, ~3", really pretty pairing at these magnitudes.  Not physical!

17H 42M 11.03S +49° 00' 09.3" P.A. 121 SEP 3.2 MAG 8.93,10.63 SP K0 DIST. 337.84 PC (1102.03 L.Y.)

25 june 2020

Lasted longer this night, one hour of observing.  Started after 10pm due to lingering summer twilight.  Seeing was frustratingly poor -- not at all as good as the forecast -- even the 8-inch mask produced only 5/10.  Had to shut down by 11pm due to marine layer moving in.

STF 1935 AB: 203; 205x: Wide, slight mag difference. 

15H 20M 13.27S +30° 41' 44.2" P.A. 289 SEP 8.6 MAG 9.91,10.19 SP G5 DIST. 86.66 PC (282.68 L.Y.)

PPM 103998 (not in the WDS) 203; 333x: At best moments, when smear seeing stills, two points resolve, bluish for faintness, and noticeable mag difference.  <1" separation.

TDS9506 AB: 203; 333x: Snowman only.  Seeing too poor to push higher

15H 24M 07.11S +28° 13' 55.2" P.A. 36 SEP 0.5 MAG 10.64,10.84

A 1369 AB: 203; 333x: ~1 delta mag, close ~4", white, B a little winkey due to seeing.  C is wide and brighter.  

15H 28M 46.74S +31° 00' 46.4" P.A. 317 SEP 4.2 MAG 10.66,11.46 SP G8V

HO 63 AB: 203; 333x: This is an unequal pair, needed averted vision to flash B and only when seeing is good will it split. 

15H 35M 47.09S +28° 22' 51.3" P.A. 311 SEP 1.5 MAG 10.88,11.23

COU 799 AB: 203; 333x: Split with seeing, bluish stars, noticeable mag difference 

15H 35M 59.13S +31° 42' 38.8" P.A. 265 SEP 1 MAG 10.82,11.16

STF 2055 AB: 203; 205x: Marfic. Nice blazing white pair, ~1 delta, ~2".  129 year period, but not much change in the next few years

16H 30M 54.84S +01° 59' 02.8" P.A. 44.5 SEP 1.41 MAG 4.15,5.15 SP A0V+A0V DIST. 53.08 PC (173.15 L.Y.) 

STF 2062 AB: 203; 205x: Significant delta mag ~2, ~2-3", B seen with seeing

16H 34M 44.14S +08° 45' 54.2" P.A. 108 SEP 2.4 MAG 9.07,10.61 SP G0

  

STT 314 AB: 203; 205x: B is blue and sharp with seeing, light yellow A is ~3 magnitudes brighter, ~4".

16H 38M 51.50S +20° 27' 57.6" P.A. 236 SEP 3.5 MAG 8.20,11.20 SP K2 

HU 486 AB: 203; 205x: Very fine at this magnification, just split with seeing and just visible. 

16H 39M 29.32S +22° 43' 59.7" P.A. 164 SEP 1.2 MAG 10.23,10.89 SP F8

BU 42 AB: 203; 205x: Significant magnitude difference, wide white stars 

16H 40M 05.82S +29° 00' 41.0" P.A. 41 SEP 7.5 MAG 10.19,10.66 SP G0

STF 2084 AB: 203; 533x: Zeta Her.  B seen, not too difficult as a disk within the diffraction of bright A, just outside first ring so ~1.5", like a diamond ring, significant mag difference.  ** I need to re-observe this since it's a short period pair **

16H 41M 17.16S +31° 36' 09.8" P.A. 111.8 SEP 1.36 MAG 2.95,5.40 SP G1IV DIST. 10.72 PC (34.97 L.Y.)

 

23 june 2020

This turned out to be a very short night, just a half hour observing.  Seeing was no good, and some ocean haze.  Plus I was still very tired from the prior night's outing to Pinnacles.  So I closed up early and went to bed.

STF 2130 AB: 203; 205x: Mu Dra "Arrakis" (which was the name of the planet in the book Dune, but means "Dancer" in Arabic).  Light yellow-orange stars, well split, equal. 812 year period.

17H 05M 20.20S +54° 28' 14.3" P.A. 359.3 SEP 2.58 MAG 5.66,5.69 SP F7V DIST. 27.43 PC (89.48 L.Y.)

ES 776 AB: 203; 205x: Slightly orange-red A and faint wide B.  Missed BC which is 11.8 and 2.2"

17H 18M 31.17S +53° 45' 56.0" P.A. 152 SEP 29.5 MAG 9.11,11.61 SP K0

KR 46 AB: 203; 205x: Finely split pair, ~2", one delta mag, white stars, nice looking pair

17H 19M 31.84S +58° 31' 45.2" P.A. 65 SEP 1.7 MAG 9.34,9.60 SP F2 DIST. 205.76 PC (671.19 L.Y.)

ES 2657 BC: 203; 205x: B is bluish color, with a close equal mag companion C, well split, >10".  A is orange-yellow wide to this pair.

17H 22M 05.43S +56° 37' 39.5" P.A. 74 SEP 11.7 MAG 11.20,11.50 DIST. 271.74 PC (886.42 L.Y.)

STF 2180 AB: 203; 205x: Near equal white stars ~3"

17H 28M 58.17S +50° 52' 13.0" P.A. 260 SEP 3 MAG 7.79,8.06 SP A7IV DIST. 110.99 PC (362.05 L.Y.)

STF 2199 AB: 203; 205x: Light yellow stars, ~2" and ~1 delta mag.  1298 year period.

17H 38M 38.32S +55° 45' 34.9" P.A. 51.8 SEP 1.94 MAG 8.03,8.60 SP F8V DIST. 121.21 PC (395.39 L.Y.)

STF 2218 AB: 203; 205x: ~2 delta, split but quite close, with seeing.  White A & yellow-white B. 2130 year period

17H 40M 18.07S +63° 40' 31.4" P.A. 307.9 SEP 1.42 MAG 7.08,8.37 SP F8V DIST. 68.49 PC (223.41 L.Y.)

ES 1910 AB: 203; 205x: Near equal, well split, white

17H 42M 24.53S +65° 00' 59.0" P.A. 56 SEP 5.1 MAG 9.93,10.04 SP K2+K2

STF 2142 AB: 203; 205x: White star and ~3 detla mag, well separated, a little reddish color

17H 11M 40.26S +49° 44' 46.7" P.A. 110 SEP 4.9 MAG 6.18,9.35 SP A5III DIST. 94.88 PC (309.5 L.Y.)

pinnacles again

With the weather forecast looking good, and a gap in my work meeting schedule, an opening to go out twice this new moon presented itself.  I was met at the Pinnacles by Peter and David, and we all enjoyed a very nice, quiet night of observing.  SQML got to 21.46; there was some lingering transparency issues which I think hurt the sky a little.

I brought my 6-inch f/5 and 80mm f/15 refractors, dual alt-az mounted.  I have not had either scope to a dark sky, and I wanted to see what things looked like in both.  The 6-inch had a wonderfully large 3.25 degree TFOV at 25x with a 31mm Nagler.  I could fit many objects in a single field, and even smaller ones had a wider context in which to frame them.  What helped even more was a DioptRx, which I purchased recently after discovering large exit pupils expose astigmatism in my observing eye.  The DioptRx miraculously sharpens the stars and saves the view.  The 80mm really surprised me: of course I could not resolve as many stars, but the contrast in the view was very good, and it seemed to show dark nebula even darker than the 6-inch--perhaps as a result of a smaller exit pupil and a dimmer sky background.  I compared the views in the scopes often, and was amazed that the 80mm kept up with the 6-inch.  IC 342 as an example -- I could see the small brighter core in both scopes, though I could see more of the halo with 6-inch.  It seemed to me I could see "deeper" with the f/15 than I could with an 80mm f/4 finder -- I could see more galaxies and so on.  I wonder what it is about long focal lengths which might make such a difference.

As night fell the one day old moon set, and I was able to watch it through both scopes (but mainly through the 80mm) as it set behind trees on a hill.  As a bracket for the night, in the early morning I observed M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, and then the Double Cluster, rise on the eastern hill.  It was fun to see stars in the DC wink in and out behind branches and twigs of the trees.  Seeing these objects with earth in the same FOV puts them on my own human scale -- it makes them seem very large, yet somehow close.

As darkness deepened I tried for Antares, GNT 1 -- which I was able to get in the 80mm @ 133x with a 9mm orthoscopic -- an airy disk with tremulous diffraction rings, but the very faint B star was steady within the diffraction ring; current separation is 3.2" and its PA is to the west, which matched what I saw.  A star is a bright orange, B is light green but faint.  I've tried for GNT 1 many times these last few years, this is my first positive observation. 

16H 29M 24.47S -26° 25' 55.0" P.A. 277.4 SEP 2.56 MAG 0.96,5.40 SP M1 DIST. 169.78 PC (553.82 L.Y.)

C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS): I had the presence of mind to print a finder for this 8th mag comet before leaving the house.  It seemed to be fairly close to the large galaxy M106 and I was pretty impressed with myself to find M106 with just a Telrad find.  Sure enough there was a large elongated diffuse glow, brighter at one end, which at first I thought might be a galaxy.  I made a sketch of it in the surrounding star field (with the 6-inch at 25x it was in the same field as M106).  I came back to it a couple hours later, and sure enough the comet had moved slightly.  There was no response to the comet filter.  The elongation was the beginnings of the tail, which I noticed more prominently the second observation (probably due to good dark adaptation.  The view through the 80mm rivaled the 6-inch, just a few less stars and half the field of view.

For most of the evening I simply scanned about aimlessly, but enjoying the views.  In the 6-inch the Veil Nebula, both east and west, just barely fit the same field.  All of Kemble's Cascade and into NGC 1502.  Sulafat to Sheliak with M57 in the middle.  Dark nebula beyond count.  Dim and bright globular clusters, small and large spreads of open clusters.  It was hard for me to take notes on what I was seeing: with such star fields I could only think of the general beauty of the scenes rather than the specific nature of what was seen.

The sight of the night was B 168 / Cr 470 / IC 5146 the "Cocoon Nebula."  In the 6-inch I could see the entire extent of these objects.  B 168 looked like a trench dug in the star field, with stars falling into the dark mark made.  The cluster was a scattering of faint stars, and the nebula seen when using the H-Beta filter as a weak fog in the northern quadrant of the cluster.  

Using a UHC filter I explored some unfamiliar HII regions in northwestern Cygnus.  DWB 145-148: faint wishbone shaped nebula, about 1 degree long and half a degree wide at the end of the fork orientation NE-SW.  DWB 129: a large lazy "S" curve seeming to sprout from an 8th magnitude star and flow to the SW, with a chain of four stars following the central western edge.  DWB 165 was a large oval cloud, with a bright star on its north central rim.   I find only one reference in SIMBAD, the discovery paper "The Cygnus X Region, V. Catalogue and distances of optically visible H II regions" published in 1969 by H.R. Dinkel, H.J. Wendker, and J.H. Bieritz (DWB).   They were measuring distances to H II regions to see if they could be ionized by Cygnus X, and whether a "Ring of Nebula" formed about 10 degrees around Gamma Cygni was ionized by this star (their findings were inconclusive). 

I ended the night with views of Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter through the 80mm.  I tried the "straight through" viewing method, with no diagonal used, the eyepiece mounted to the focuser.  Also a Televue planetary filter, at 92x.  Mars was swimming a bit in seeing, it was still low, but I had glimpses of a snowy pole and some dark areas on the orange red disk.  Saturn looked really great, with bands on the planet and Cassini's Division plain on the multi-colored rings.  Jupiter showed multiple bands and what I thought was the GRS with a turbulent oval eddy behind it, but checking today it seems there are two large storm systems imitating the GRS.  I had dim impressions of a couple large festoons, but only barely.

19 june 2020

A shorter night last night than I intended. It didn't get fully dark until after 10pm, and transparency and seeing were disappointing. Kept the 8-inch mask throughout. Had some nice observations, though. Closed up around midnight.

STF 1622 AB: 203; 205x: 2 CVn Very pretty orange and blue stars, ~3 delta mag, wide. (not physical)
12H 16M 07.55S +40° 39' 36.6" P.A. 260 SEP 12.1 MAG 5.86,8.71 SP M1III+F7V DIST. 236.41 PC (771.17 L.Y.)

HO 260 AB: 203; 205x: Close pair, nicely split ~2", ~1 delta mag, light orange stars
13H 23M 32.82S +29° 14' 15.0" P.A. 88.5 SEP 1.68 MAG 9.60,9.94 SP M0+M0.5 DIST. 18.82 PC (61.39 L.Y.)


HLM 5 AB: 203; 205x: White stars, well split ~6", about one delta. Surprised this was not discovered until 1901 by amateur British astronomer Edwin Holmes, who was a "seller of glass" and made his own 12-inch Newtonian. Apparently he was strongly opinionated and argued for the use of reflectors over refractors for their large aperture at low cost.
13H 31M 00.44S +36° 26' 27.7" P.A. 161 SEP 6.1 MAG 10.13,10.86 DIST. 32.46 PC (105.88 L.Y.)

HJ 2659: I did not split this, the secondary is too faint at 14th mag. However the field of view at 205x revealed a mini coat hanger asterism. HJ 2659A is the bright star at the center.




BU 933 AB: 203; 205x: Very fine pair, blue-white A, white B, ~3" ~2 delta.
13H 34M 34.66S +33° 08' 08.7" P.A. 23 SEP 2.8 MAG 9.04,9.69 SP F8 DIST. 116.96 PC (381.52 L.Y.)

STF 1776 AB: 203; 205x: Near equal white stars, wide
13H 41M 47.70S +46° 13' 11.2" P.A. 18 SEP 7.3 MAG 9.36,9.37 SP G0+G0 DIST. 152.21 PC (496.51 L.Y.)

STF 1786 AB: 203; 205x: ~1 delta mag, wide >10", white stars. Not physical
13H 49M 38.98S +34° 59' 18.1" P.A. 22 SEP 11 MAG 8.95,10.27 SP F8 DIST. 96.71 PC (315.47 L.Y.)

BU 613 Ba-Bb: 203; 333x: Very fine. Suspected at 205x but needed the larger scale at 333x. Clean split, near equal faint blue stars. A third wider star same mag and color further out (this is BU 613 BC, 10.34/10.68 45.9")
13H 51M 21.62S +34° 41' 03.9" P.A. 149 SEP 0.8 MAG 10.90,10.90 SP F8

BU 937 AB: 203; 205x: Nice pair, close ~1", white, about half delta mag
13H 57M 06.41S +34° 26' 04.9" P.A. 137 SEP 1.1 MAG 9.00,9.44 SP G0 DIST. 140.45 PC (458.15 L.Y.)

STF 1796 AB: 203; 205x: Nice white and blue, ~1 delta, ~2-3"
14H 00M 24.11S +36° 58' 09.3" P.A. 190 SEP 2.5 MAG 9.81,10.57 SP F8

STT 274 AB: 203; 205x: Bright white and ~3 delta mag B, wide, attractive. Not physical
14H 06M 41.61S +34° 46' 42.8" P.A. 51 SEP 12.9 MAG 7.13,10.47 SP G9III DIST. 127.39 PC (415.55 L.Y.)

STT 276 AB-C: 203; 205x: White and ~3 delta mag B, wide (need to re-observe, AB is 0.4")
14H 08M 11.84S +36° 44' 56.6" P.A. 72 SEP 9.5 MAG 8.48,10.62 SP G4III DIST. 201.21 PC (656.35 L.Y.)

STF 1818 AB: 203; 205x: ~1 delta mag white, wide, ~5"
14H 14M 16.33S +33° 55' 41.8" P.A. 330 SEP 5.4 MAG 9.01,10.24 SP G2III DIST. 72.78 PC (237.41 L.Y.)

STF 1848 AB: 203; 205x: White and very faint B, which is drawn out with foveal coaxing. ~3 delta and ~3". Nice
14H 27M 45.30S +32° 57' 02.9" P.A. 357 SEP 3.1 MAG 8.67,11.69 SP A3 DIST. 196.46 PC (640.85 L.Y.)

HU 1268 AB: 203; 533x: Notched elongation, white, near equal.
14H 29M 32.75S +36° 12' 26.0" P.A. 332.1 SEP 0.33 MAG 9.77,9.90 SP F5 DIST. 184.84 PC (602.95 L.Y.)


HU 904 AB: 203; 205x: B very close and faint, can see with foveal coaxing only but cant hold it direct.
14H 31M 09.93S +34° 25' 32.7" P.A. 172 SEP 1.9 MAG 10.02,11.74 SP F8

HJ 554 AB: 203; 205x: Near equal white wide
14H 32M 31.57S +34° 42' 09.5" P.A. 292 SEP 11.7 MAG 10.38,10.72 SP K0

STF 1858 AB: 203; 205x: Nice white pair, ~1.5 delta mag, wide ~5". (Check the orbit on this one! Oh to be alive in the 3530s to see B whip around A)
14H 33M 36.45S +35° 35' 08.0" P.A. 37.9 SEP 3.03 MAG 8.13,8.98 SP G5 DIST. 36.79 PC (120.01 L.Y.)



STF 1867 AB: 203; 533x: Hairline split best moments, noticeable mag difference.
14H 40M 44.21S +31° 17' 23.5" P.A. 352.3 SEP 0.64 MAG 8.36,8.83 SP F5 DIST. 116.96 PC (381.52 L.Y.)