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Hi guys

Saturday being a beautiful night I got the gear out and went to a part of the sky I have never explored for doubles, Aquarius, here's what I came out with.

Hope you enjoy.

29 Aquarii: A nice white pair of equal 7th mag. stars, a decent separation of 3.9" is easily seen at X147.
94 Aquarii: A cracking colour pair, pale yellow and orange, 5 & 7 mags. with a wide separation of 13", making it an easy split at X147, well worth hunting down.
91 Aquarii: Pale orange and white pair, a wide difference in magnitudes, 4.5 & 8.5, very wide at 49" making it easy to split even at low magnifications.
96 Aquarii: Lemon yellow and white, a 6,5 mag, primary is accompanied by a faint 11th mag, companion, a separation of 10" ensures that the split can be achieved at X147.
STF 3008: Orange and white pair of 7th & 8th mag. stars, a little tight at 4", a magnification of X267 gives a pleasing view.
HJ 316: An intense yellow primary is accompanied by a white associate, 6 & 9.5 mags., wide at 33", and easy grab, got my best view at X267.
107 Aquarii: Pale yellow and white 5.5 & 6.5 mag. stars with a separation of 6.6" ensures that they are an easy split, I used X147.
69 Aquarii: White 6th & 9th mag. stars are widely separated at 25".
Delta (55) Aquarii: A pretty yellow pair of equal 4.5 mag. companions are close in the sky at 1.7", X267 gave me the best view, the fact they are of equal magnitudes means that the split was that much easier.
STF 2913: Light yellow and white stars of 7th & 8th mag. separated by 8.2" , easily split at X84.
BU 77: Another light yellow and white pair, quite faint 9th & 10th mag. stars, tight at 2.8" X267 was more than enough to get some dark sky between them.
51 Aquarii: A white pair of 7th & 10th mag. companions are separated at 7", X147 was enough to split them.
41 Aquarii: A beautiful pair of pale orange and deep yellow companions, with a separation of 5" this 6 & 7.5 mag. stars can be split with ease at X147.

I was planning to go on, the view was getting worse as the corrector plate on the SCT was clouding over, I had no way to remove the dew and had to call it a night, Stephen at Ktec was contacted and dew should not be a problem anymore.

One of the benefits of GoTo is the fact that I was observing a southern part of the sky, and with the light pollution around my house I could not even see any other stars of Aquarius, the system allowed me to find some cracking doubles.

As this was the first time I had hunted Aquarius for doubles it was nice to observe doubles with actual numbers before the constellation name or a letter, :bigshock: as opposed to the STF, STT or BU catalogues.

I'm eager to get back to Aquarius, those doubles I managed to observe showed some terrific colours and I can only hope that this vast constellation holds many more samples.

Thanks for your time.

Paul