Thursday, April 4, 2013

Easy Doubles Near Bright Stars

Currently, I'm working on lists of doubles that are within 4 degrees of a specific bright star.  The bright stars I choose are typically mag 3, or brighter, and typically used as an alignment star for most goto systems.  The inspiration for these types of lists is, again, my location in a light polluted area.  My Naked Eye Limiting Magnitude (NELM) is ~3 from my backyard, so I know these lists will contain doubles that I can split.  Additional criteria includes scope aperture - most of the doubles in these lists should be splittable with a minimum 4" scope.  You can download them here.

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