Brian, thanks for that good information, I will give that a try one of
these evenings!
Doug Odette
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 6:48 PM Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is getting to be the season for viewing Sirius B. I was able to get a
good glimpse of it this evening during twilight using the 8-inch Moonraker
refractor on the Mars Hill observing deck at Lowell, described here:
https://lowell.edu/giovale-open-deck-observatory/telescopes/
â¦which was being operated by Hailey Osborn, one of our educators.
This was with a 12.5mm focal-length eyepiece, giving about 195x. The
trick is to observe the field midway through twilight with the sky still
bright blue. Once it gets dark, there is too much glare from Sirius itself
to see the companion easily.
\Brian
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