STARLOG

This is a nice double, best viewed at 208X. The primary is very bright and white, while the secondary is much fainter and orange. To me, it resembles a star with a planet orbiting it.

This double is easily split at 83X. The primary is a bright white and the secondary is a pale yellow. Very nice.

NEW! The best view was at 136X. This has a gorgeous orange primary and the secondary is pale blue and a couple of magnitudes fainter.

I couldn't find this one in the Pocket Sky Atlas, so I had to go to my computer and look it up. As it turns out, the star was plotted in PSA, but not labelled. Both stars are of about equal magnitude, nicely separated at 83X. Both appear to be orange and remind me of 61 Cygni.

This pair is easy to find by using Denebola (β Leo) and Zosma (δ Leo) as pointer stars. Both stars are bright, with the primary being a magnitude or two brighter and is pale yellow, where the secondary is an even paler yellow-white.

This is a very bright double, with the primary being about a magnitude brighter than its companion. The main star is yellow-white, and the secondary is a slightly deeper yellow.

NEW! This double is wide and fairly faint. I found this easily by pointing at nearby Omicron (ο) Leonis. 6 Leo was in the same field of my finderscope. The primary is a couple magnitudes brighter and a pale yellow, while the secondary is blue. Nice, but not overly impressive.

NEW! This is easily found about halfway between Denebola (β Leo) and Chertan (θ Leo). The best view was at 83X, where the primary was a nice yellow color and the secondary was orange and a couple of magnitudes fainter.

NEW! This one is faint enough to not even show up in my finder scope, at least with the gibbous Moon high overhead. It was still easy to find, being not far from 6 Leo. Both stars are about the same magnitude and appear pale orange.

NEW! I had to do a bit of starhopping with my finder scope to get this one, which was made more difficult by the bright moonlight. I started at ε Leo, hopped to λ Leo, then κ Leo, and finally found it about halfway between κ Leo and τ Leo. The faintest of the three is very close to the primary, with the third star being just a bit brighter than the secondary and about 4-5 times farther away. The primary is a nice milky white, but the other two stars were too faint to detect much color in them, and they appeared gray. The 3 stars are almost, but not quite, in a line.

This is a nice wide double, easily split at 83X. The primary star is white and a magnitude or two brighter, while the secondary is a pale yellow.

The best view was at 208X. The stars are similar in magnitude and look like a pair of bright white headlights.

I had to crank this one up to 341X because the stars are pretty close together and the secondary was right on a diffraction spike from the primary. The primary is bright white and the secondary is a few magnitudes fainter and also white. Together, they look like a little snowman.

The primary is a bluish white and the slightly fainter companion is slightly yellow-white.

This pair is pretty. They are fairly close, but can be separated nicely at 136X. The primary is pale yellow and the secondary is orange.

Although called a globular cluster, this group of stars appears more like a tight open cluster, and is a very elongated oval in appearance. This is probably due to its extreme age, which is nearly three times older than our own sun. At a glance, it's an elongated fuzzy patch with a few stars along the edges, but the longer you look, the more stars you see resolving at the core. Even in the washed out glow of the Moon tonight, it's still a beautiful sight.