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 ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.siowl.com 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 > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.