[AZ-Observing] Re: Triangle in a triangle asterism--Reeves-2 in Corvus

The asterism has been noted by amateurs and professionals alike for 
quite a while...

 From Rev. T.W. Webb's  1917 edition of Celestial Objects for Common 
Telescopes...
(σ1659) De. notices that this triangularly arranged triple is within a 
large triangle, 7, 7.2, 9.5

Andrew

Andrew Cooper
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Jennifer Polakis wrote:
> This one has come up a few times recently with questions on how to find 
> it--most recently, last night at Stan Gorodensky's place in Dewey.  I 
> "independently" discovered it out at Buckeye Hills in 1997 when I was brand 
> new to the hobby and excitedly called Ken Reeves over to my scope to check it 
> out only to learn: "Oh yeah, that's Reeves-2"  For a while after that, I 
> named all my little asterism finds with a Reeves #.
> This information is from Ken Reeves' "Fuzzy Spot" article in the April 2000 
> _SACNEWS_.  This link will give you the corresponding Constellation/Telrad 
> map.  
>
> http://members.cox.net/tpolakis/astro/reeves-2.jpg
>
> If you would rather independently discover it,  just surf a degree or two to 
> the right of the Sombrero M104 and it will spring into your field like a 
> prarie dog/whack-a-mole/meerkat, or something like that that can spring into 
> a field.  
>
> "Reeves-2 (12h35.7 -12 01): I'm really not being
>
> conceited, but I could find no designation for
>
> this prominent asterism of 6 stars. It is found
>
> while star-hopping to the Sombrero Galaxy in
>
> Virgo. It is a nice asterism of 6 stars, with 3
>
> bright stars in a triangle surrounding three
>
> fainter stars in the center, which form a triangle
>
> pointing the opposite direction"...Ken Reeves, Fuzzy Spot, SACNEWS, April 2000
>
> By the way, in the the great seminal work _Star Clusters_ by Brent Archinal 
> and Steven Hynes this cluster/asterism is noted as "Canali": Canali, E. 1997 
> "An Interesting Asterism in Corvus."  _The Guide Star: Newsletter of the 
> Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, Inc. Vol. 31 #2 May 1997_
>
> Jenn Polakis
>
>   
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