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2024-03-16 Saturday

• Condition: VG6
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

Clearer night tonight. A few small stray clouds would stumble into my observations, and would force me to wait 5-10 minutes for them to move further south.

08:29PM

• Target: W Canis Majoris (HD 54361)
• Const: Canis Major
• RaDec: 07h09m -11.57
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

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Light orange. East of θ Canis Majoris.

08:38PM

• Target: V614 Monocerotis (HD 52432)
• Const: Monoceros
• RaDec: 07h02m -3.17
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

Image

Yellow. Almost straight north of W Canis Majoris.

08:48PM

• Target: RY Monocerotis (TYC 5381-403-1)
• Const: Monoceros
• RaDec: 07h08m -7.35
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

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Orange red in color. I'm seeing a possible close sibling at about 280°, though I'm not able to find any information stating that RY Monocerotis is a double or multiple star.

09:15PM

• Target: RV Monocerotis (HD 51620)
• Const: Monoceros
• RaDec: 06h59m +6.08
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

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Yellow orange. Easy find west of Procyon.

09:27PM

• Target: R Canis Minoris (HD 54300)
• Const: Canis Major
• RaDec: 07h09m +9.59
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

Image

Deep orange and red.

09:34PM

• Target: GY Monocerotis (HD 50436)
• Const: Monoceros
• RaDec: 06h54m -4.36
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

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Had trouble with finding this one earlier in the night and decided to move on and come back to it. I found it on my second attempt, I think I was too far south with my first attempt.

Orange in color.