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Personally I am not so much, but I know some folks like to chase doubles. Anyway, here is a link to a site that might be of interest to you - and most may already have it anyway. Take note of the announcement about WDS web access in the upper left of the page (its another link). Hope its useful to some of you. I've had it bookmarked for some time and simply forgot about it until I was cleaning out some old stuff I no longer wanted. :)

http://www.jdso.org/
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Thanks for the link Alan. I haven’t had much of an opportunity to get out there lately due to clouds or rain. I’d like to make some progress on my Herschel’s and maybe some doubles later on but the weather is so unstable lately. I hope you’re doing well and getting in some serious scope time. :text-thankyoublue:
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Thank you for posting the link Alan :)
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10538 wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:29 am Thanks for the link Alan. I haven’t had much of an opportunity to get out there lately due to clouds or rain. I’d like to make some progress on my Herschel’s and maybe some doubles later on but the weather is so unstable lately. I hope you’re doing well and getting in some serious scope time. :text-thankyoublue:
Good luck with your weather and the Herschels Ed. Hopefully sping will not be too hard on the area, but I know it can be a volatile time as far as clouds/rain goes.
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Mounts: ES Twilight-II and Twilight-I
EPs: AT 82° 28mm UWA || TV Ethos 100° 21mm and 13mm || Vixen LVW 65° 22mm ||
ES 82° 18mm || Pentax XW 70° 10mm, 7mm and 5mm || barlows
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Lady Fraktor wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:37 am Thank you for posting the link Alan :)
My pleasure Gabrielle. Hope it proves useful. I sometimes save links and then forget about them if its something I don't typically use myself.
Alan

Scopes: Astro Sky 17.5 f/4.5 Dob || Apertura AD12 f/5 Dob || Zhumell Z10 f/4.9 Dob ||
ES AR127 f/6.5 || ES ED80 f/6 || Apertura 6" f/5 Newtonian
Mounts: ES Twilight-II and Twilight-I
EPs: AT 82° 28mm UWA || TV Ethos 100° 21mm and 13mm || Vixen LVW 65° 22mm ||
ES 82° 18mm || Pentax XW 70° 10mm, 7mm and 5mm || barlows
Filters (2 inch): DGM NPB || Orion Ultra Block, O-III and Sky Glow || Baader HaB
Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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"Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt." (William Herschel)
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." (Sir Isaac Newton)
"No good deed goes unpunished." (various)
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?” (Scarecrow, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
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Hello Alan.
Thank you for posting this link.
Clear Skies.
Regards,

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I haven't done much recently. Weather and moonlight have meant I have been mostly limited to DSLR lunar shots but I have a few double star shots in my gallery:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/philippug ... 6438989044
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kt4hx wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 5:58 am
Lady Fraktor wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:37 am Thank you for posting the link Alan :)
My pleasure Gabrielle. Hope it proves useful. I sometimes save links and then forget about them if its something I don't typically use myself.
I do the same, one of these days I actually need to organize it all so things can be found easily.
See Far Sticks: Antares Elita 103/1575, AOM FLT 105/1000, Bresser BV 127/1200, Nočný stopár 152/1200, Vyrobené doma 70/700, Stellarvue NHNG DX 80/552, TAL RS100/1000, Vixen SD115s/885
EQ: TAL MT-1, Vixen SXP, AXJ, AXD
Az/Alt: AYO Digi II/ Argo Navis, Stellarvue M2C/ Argo Navis
Tripods: Berlebach Planet (2), Uni 28 Astro, Report 372, TAL factory maple, Vixen ASG-CB90, Vixen AXD-TR102
Diagonals: Astro-Physics, Baader Amici, Baader Herschel, iStar Blue, Stellarvue DX, Takahashi prism, TAL, Vixen flip mirror
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