For me it was a pair of observing nights, the first was in June, short nights and all that, but I got a nice opportunity to observe Scorpius to the south, the highlight of that particular night was the beautiful double-double that comprises Xi Scorpii and STF 1999 that are visible in the same field. Xi is a delightful yellow-white pair and STF 1999 an even more beautiful yellow-orange combination. Both sets have bright members with wide separations. I managed a declination of -28 that night.
August brought Sagittarius to the same part of the sky, that night there was another example of a double-double with S715 & S716 visible in the same field, both are ordinary white stars, but it's just a pleasure to get two pairs in the same field.
Why I picked these two particular nights was that I am lucky enough to have a small window of opportunity to the south of the house, between neighbour's houses and the trees, it's not a large window, it does offer some possibilities to explore a region that I would have to travel to the countryside to get.
I have been having a little fun thinking up different, and sometimes terrible, titles for my reports, you have to laugh, or cry. I have not had much time to observe lately, so there are plenty more dreadful titles running around in my head.
Paul
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