I discovered a double star

[mikemarotta]

I was looking at Mars, and changing oculars I bumped the telescope. I was pretty sure that I knew in which direction, and when I went to move it back, I got two stars in the view. "That looks like a binary," I said to myself. So, I noted the time and that it appeared about a Moon's diameter southeast of Mars. When I came indoors, I checked Stellarium. I found eta Piscium. I called the distance 1 degree. It was more than that, but close enough as nothing else similar was in proximity.

What I find fascinating is that it just looked like a binary in a way that two stars only visually close do not.