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7-13-2022 TSS Visual Report of the Day.

by helicon

"Capricorn Doubles"

What to do when the moon is nearly full and you've got naturally occurring Bortle 8 and 9 conditions? One can sit the evening out, look at planets, or track down double stars. The advantage of double star observing is that the stars are points of light, not distended objects and hence they punch through light pollution better than other targets.

Sure, limiting magnitude is a problem but not a show stopper. In this milieu bigzmey (Andrey) went to his favorite spot in the Anza desert for some observing. Focusing on Capricorn he observed and logged myriad doubles with his Edge 9.25" SCT and also grasped the only Messier in Capricorn, the globular cluster M75. Considering that he was battling cloud cover he had a great morning session, Congratulations Andrey on winning the VROD for the day!

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