13 Oct
2003
13 Oct
'03
6:17 p.m.
I can normally split Rigel with a 6" newt. Some nights, however, the seeing isn't good enough. I normally have so little poroblem with it that I could easily show it to teachers who were the recipients of 6" f10 scopes. I do not consider it to be too difficult. It is in my first finder chart book. The position angle and separation are not changing much. The Hipparchos catalog shows a distance of 773 light years, and the actual separation is abut 2250 a.u. I think the difficulty Debbie mentions is one of photographing it, not of observing it. BTW, great shot Debbie. Brent __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com