2022-11-04

An early morning session! It's nice to be doing this at the beginning of the day when I feel the most refreshed. It was so cold this morning though, that I didn't stay out as long as I would have hoped.

5:38AM

Very beautiful split! Both appear white-yellow.

[1] α Geminorum (ID)

[2] Star (Double) (ID)

[3] ../images/2022-11-4_AlphaGeminorum.jpg

5:50AM

This one is hard. I can only momentarily detect the sibling. It seems to pop in to view for a split second, then I can't see it for a while. No amount of micro-focusing seems to help, it's just so faint that it's hard to see.

[1] δ Geminorum (ID)

[2] Star (Double) (ID)

[3] ../images/2022-11-4_DeltaGeminorum.jpg

5:57AM

Beautiful and easy. Primary is orange and secondary is a yellow-white.

[1] ι Cancri (ID)

[2] Star (Double) (ID)

[3] ../images/2022-11-4_IotaCancri.jpg

6:04AM

Fairly easy split, both look a ghostly-white.

[1] ζ Cancri (ID)

[2] Star (Double) (ID)

[3] ../images/2022-11-4_ZetaCancri.jpg

6:11AM

When I found M48 in my finder-scope and looked through my lens, the lens was de-focused to the point where there were circular corona's of light. The shape of the 'light circles' from the stars in and around M48 produced a distinct heart-shape in my lens. As I focused, I continued to see the heart shape in the cluster; though I'm not sure if it was a trick of my mind at that point. Very neat little cluster.

[1] M 48 (ID)

[2] Open Cluster (ID)

[3] ../images/2022-11-4_M48.jpg