Rules & Guidelines

[Gordon]

The Double stars (AP) Challenge rules and guidelines are as follows:

Note: if you are using specialized equipment such as the SeeStar, Unistellar Odessy, Vaonis VE50 Vespera, DWARF II Smart Telescope, Celestron Origin or similar system that captures and stacks images during capture. (EAA) see our Double star EAA challenge! Please contact one of the TSS TEAM members if you are in doubt.

We will have 3 levels of submissions. 30, 60, and 100. Each level will have a certificate and award icon.

To get started, simply create a new topic in this subforum. You may then post your progress as you work through your list of objects spread out over many nights, or post them all at once at the completion of your journey.

Upon completion of a submission level, please post your log file to the thread as well. This may be a spreadsheet, CSV file, text file, Word document, or PDF. Once that is accomplished, please notify the moderator with a link to your thread. You will then be awarded a badge (the Icon displays on your post headers and your profile page) along with a suitable for framing certificate of accomplishment.

That's it! Any questions just let us know.

Have fun!

[Bigzmey]

The goal for this challenge is to introduce you to the exciting world of double (and multiple) stars.

To earn the icon and certificate simply capture images of 30, 60 or 100 doubles from the Astronomical League telescope or binocular double star lists. The lists are attached in PDF format, and you can also download them from the AL web site as Excel files.

https://www.astroleague.org/double-star ... g-program/

https://www.astroleague.org/binocular-d ... ppendix-a/

I have also attached sortable Excel file for the telescope doubles list which I generated using Stelle Doppie/WDS interface. It should make finding doubles easier as it include additional identifiers and could be sorted by constellations.

Have fun!