And thanks for choosing my image for illustration.

Stefan

http://www.astromeeting.de

My newst images from Chile:
http://www.astromeeting.de/chile2006.htm

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Stuart

Here is the Starry Night output for 40 Eridani, with the viewing location set to Hamilton, ON. I had it select “best viewing time” since 40 Eridani rises just after lunch right now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/dcowan38/board_posts/40eridani.jpg if the picture doesn’t load.

http://mysite.verizon.net/wayne1026/main/colordouble.html

I usually feature Albireo at my club’s public star parties since double stars are good at penetrating the bad light polution at our public site. We describe it as the “Cub Scout Star” since many scouts attend our events and they use blue and gold colors.

Wayne Reed

Incidentally, you can use the ° or the º (degree) marks by making sure your NUMLOCK is on and then holding the ALT-key while typing (on the numberpad ONLY) 504 for the small degree mark and 167 for the large degree mark. Just thought I’d mention it since we use degrees here so often.

So if you have a Â¥ to £ away ¾ of the time without impinging on someone’s © I hope this has ® properly with you, even if it takes æons! En français… nah, that wouldn’t make ¢…

I LOVE being old, and still remembering how to use ASCII

“Update February 15: In the last two days RS Oph has been fading and reddening, losing about 0.4 magnitude per day according to visual reports sent to the AAVSO. As of Wednesday morning (February 15.3 UT), RS Oph was about magnitude 5.7. The star’s low altitude and the full moonlight may or may not be affecting visual estimates and other measurements. Check back here for further developments. “

Some interesting links:

http://www.solstation.com/stars/40erida3.htm

and a fun one:

http://www.marketaz.co.uk/StarTrek/Vulcan/Where_is_Vulcan.txt

Have fun!

Yeah, I like Albireo, too. Definitely Orange & Blue to me.

Hey, Squid! I don’t have Starry Night, and I haven’t unpacked my Astronomy books since I bought this house… Ottawa’s not too far from Hamilton… Have you got numbers for 40 Eridani handy? (In the Star Trek universe, it is supposed to be the one Vulcan circles — heheh). I’ve always wanted to look at it, but never thought of it when I’m set up (Orbiter 9000S reflector). Thanks in advance if you do!

He’s on Lou Dobbs in a few minutes!

Ed Murray

isn’t that a case of Bad Astronomy? If the blue one is B and the orange one is K giant, I guess we all know which one is warmer…

I picked an arbitrary location of Madras, India and fired up Starry Night.

At 5 AM, Albireo is around Azimuth 64 degrees, Altitude 19 degrees above the horizon. It rises around 2:30 AM in Madras, so get a pot of coffee going.

I enjoyed ioresults comments on the name, and the addition that it is really a triple. What type of binary is the orange-blue K-B pair?

I ask my students, almost every Fall “What colors do you see? Make up your mind, and don’t tell anyone until all have taken a look.” Mostly I get yellow and blue-green, but I have heard anything from white-yellow-gold (orange very rarely) & blue, blue-green, aqua, turqoise and even purple or pink!?! Clearly people have wildly different interpretations of color, at low levels.

Was the plate on a Saab or Volvo? Albiero is sometimes called the “Swedish binary” since blue and yellow are the colors of the Swedish flag.

- Jack

So it’s the A binary star (orange and blue) combined with the more distant orbiting B star that we “see”.

The star is visible briefly before dawn this month, rising around 5 AM. It will rise about 2 hours earlier every month and will be visible in the east around 9PM (2100) in June.

(or is there new information in that I haven’t heard?)