Well, there appears to be something there. Still have to process my pictures but with a clear filter and with green (visual) it's plainly there. Disappears with red filter. It's not in the two pictures I comparison pictures I found on line. Weird. Will pist pictures in a bit. patrick On 19 Apr 2015, at 23:38, 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