Double star insomniac

by Phil Terzian

Couldn't sleep so I got up and observed some double stars from my backyard observatory this morning.

The seeing was quite soft at 4:00 am. I was having trouble splitting 4" doubles 40 degrees or closer to the horizon. Things settled down a bit by 5:30 and I was having pretty good luck down to 2" at 160 power with the Tak 102. Logged about a dozen objects off of the AL doubles list, mostly around Hercules.

Early morning observing is quite pleasant.

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Posted on sf-bay-tac Tue Feb 10 06:21:34 2004 PT
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