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Blog post

- Name: Todd D. Vance, Bowie MD
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Date: 9/7/2006
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Time: 22:08—22:17 EDT
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Seeing: 5
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Transparency: 3
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Site: Home
- 38° 54' 51'' N
- 76° 44' 5'' W
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Object: Upper portion of Lyra
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Constellation: Lyra
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Instrument: 9x63 Meade Travelview Binoculars 5.8° field of view
- Power: 9x
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Description:
Upper portion of Lyra, including Vega (Alpha), the double-double Epsilon (only two stars visible in binoculars),
the non-split double Zeta, and the contrasting-color double Delta. Light pollution and haze (and a waxing gibbous moon) made
transparency low—epsilon was just barely visible (but not split) with the unaided eye with averted vision, and then
only for a moment here and there.
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