I was looking at Mizar Saturday night. From Mizar which direction are you saying the new star is? I will attempt to look again tonight to confirm. On Monday, April 20, 2015 8:43 AM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote: Hi Rob, Interesting. At 43x you cannot begin to detect .5 arc second. I thought they were actually spectroscopic binaries. Could your observation be from internal reflections in the binos? Was the "star" present in both sides of the binos? I have seen some very convincing internal reflections produced by what were supposed to be quality eyepieces. I can't currently check on the observation. On Apr 20, 2015 12:44 AM, "Rob Ratkowski" <ratkwski@gmail.com> wrote:
Aloha
I just sent an email to Patrick Wiggins in SLC about an observation of Mizar Friday night. Here is what I wrote
We did a star party for our STEM Conference here in Hawaii and I was
showing one of the attending students a double star, Mizar and Alcor. But what was weird was that Mizar was a double and I was seeing it. But that wasn't possible since I was using 100mm binos at 43X and the separation is only .5" and at about 220*. What I saw was at about 155* and a separation of 3' (estimate) and I had two other very good observers look and check charts and Sky Safari, nothing there. If your out tonite, take a look at Mizar and see if there's a star?? near it that's not on star charts. This observation has us puzzled. Let me know what you find and what you think it might be, Mother Ship??
Aloha Rob
Anyone w/ a clear sky able to take a look ?? I am in the middle of a move and my gear is between 2 homes for the next few weeks
Thanks Rob _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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