Sunday, November 20, 2011

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Well, it's 29° F out there and I have packed up the telescope for the night. Tonight I viewed four double stars:
  • Beta Cephei
  • Struve 2816 (which is actually a triple)
  • Epsilon Pegasi
  • Xi Cephei
On a break to warm up, I edited the Wikipedia article for Xi Cephei to add some additional star catalog names. I've been using the telescopes GoTo computer to find the stars, so it helps to have references like the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) star catalog number.

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