Tuesday, October 7, 2025

6 october 2025

Observed with the 20-inch for only a little while before I had an azimuth encoder error and had to end the session.  I'll need to tear down the scope to get at it (I hope it's as simple as a loose set screw).  That's probably a good thing as I can clean the structure and give it some maintenance.

Seeing and transparency were ok, with a nearly full moon.  I observed from the red star list, all of these at 140x:

BLL  41: gorgeous deep orange in a very rich field. 

BLL  42: deep orange 

BLL  43: striking, bright deep orange. 

HD 227112 yellow-orange, close to a bright light-yellow star

V2093 Cyg bright yellow-orange in a rich field 

WEB   9: striking group: orange and blue unequal wide pair, like Albeiro, with a third fainter pale blue star in an arc, and a wider, brighter blue-white star below the arc.  The primary star is a 0.4" unequal pair, did not try for it.