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RussL
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Omicron Cygni is a triple star with contrasting colors.
Yeah, that's my favorite, and you can easily see it in 10x50s, too.
Another good one coming up is the Winter Albireo in Canis Major, but I forget what the designation for it is. 
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jrbarnett
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Kevin put me over the edge. Lovely story. I'll go with Alberio. Previously I was on the fence. 
- Jim
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David Knisely
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Omicron Cygni is a triple star with contrasting colors.
Yeah, that's my favorite, and you can easily see it in 10x50s, too.
Another good one coming up is the Winter Albireo in Canis Major, but I forget what the designation for it is.
That would be h 3945 (sometimes know by a few as 145 CMa):
h3945 (ADS 5951, CMa), R.A. 7h 16.61m Dec. -23d 18.9'
Primary: mag. 4.8 sp. K4III, Secondary: mag. 6.8, sp. F0
Sep. 26.6" arc, P.A. 55 deg.
Colors seen in 10 inch: Orange and bluish-white.
"The Winter Albireo"
Clear skies to you.
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RLTYS
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Omicron Cygni is a triple star with contrasting colors.
Yeah, that's my favorite, and you can easily see it in 10x50s, too.
Another good one coming up is the Winter Albireo in Canis Major, but I forget what the designation for it is.
That would be h 3945 (sometimes know by a few as 145 CMa):
h3945 (ADS 5951, CMa), R.A. 7h 16.61m Dec. -23d 18.9'
Primary: mag. 4.8 sp. K4III, Secondary: mag. 6.8, sp. F0
Sep. 26.6" arc, P.A. 55 deg.
Colors seen in 10 inch: Orange and bluish-white.
"The Winter Albireo"
Clear skies to you.
To All
In my 10" scope h3945 CMa appeared: Primary, Pale Yellow. Secondary, Bluish Green. A beautiful "Alberio" class star.
Clear Skies.
Rich (RLTYS)
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David Knisely
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Omicron Cygni is a triple star with contrasting colors.
Yeah, that's my favorite, and you can easily see it in 10x50s, too.
Another good one coming up is the Winter Albireo in Canis Major, but I forget what the designation for it is.
That would be h 3945 (sometimes know by a few as 145 CMa):
h3945 (ADS 5951, CMa), R.A. 7h 16.61m Dec. -23d 18.9'
Primary: mag. 4.8 sp. K4III, Secondary: mag. 6.8, sp. F0
Sep. 26.6" arc, P.A. 55 deg.
Colors seen in 10 inch: Orange and bluish-white.
"The Winter Albireo"
Clear skies to you.
To All
In my 10" scope h3945 CMa appeared: Primary, Pale Yellow. Secondary, Bluish Green. A beautiful "Alberio" class star.
Clear Skies.
Rich (RLTYS)
The companion star is an F0 class star, so by itself, it is white with perhaps just a hint of a bluish hue, especially when placed next to a star of vastly different color. The companion of Albireo is a B-class star which is definitely bluish ('robin's egg' blue in my 10 inch), so to me at least, it has a much stronger color hue than the F0 star in h3945. Clear skies to you.
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Dave Mitsky
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Omicron Cygni is a triple star with contrasting colors.
Yeah, that's my favorite, and you can easily see it in 10x50s, too.
Another good one coming up is the Winter Albireo in Canis Major, but I forget what the designation for it is.
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WZ Cassiopeiae and h3945 are also worthy of consideration.
Dave Mitsky
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De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Dave Mitsky
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The last time I was using the 17" classical Cassegrain at the ASH Naylor Observatory Phi (52) Tauri was one of my targets. While not nearly as striking as Almach or Alberio, this binary does have a pleasing blue and yellow hue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Tauri
Dave Mitsky
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JIMZ7
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I feel they are both in 1st place-and depending what scope you may use, one might be better than the other,but it all depends on a certain night your moods on a close double or wider split-one.
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Hrundi
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I would say Albireo wins on context. Without the milky way running right through, I would not be able to make this decision.
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Rick Woods
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Albireo is a sentimental favorite for my wife and I. It is the first DS that I showed her, and we watch for it to rise every spring. I even designed our wedding rings with gems for the 2 colors.
Kevin
I like that! 
For me, it's not an either-or; the fact that they're both there makes things twice as good. I just wish there were more of them.
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fishonkevin
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Thanks Rick and Jim for the comments. This summer I have been volunteering at the Fox Park Public Observatory in Potterville, Michigan on their public nights. With many families in attendance sooner or later one of the scopes gets put on Albireo, and my story gets told again and again to the delight of wives and girlfriends.
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bdcmd
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My vote is for Albireo, since it is the first colored double star I ever saw. The most beautiful, otherwise, to me, are 32 Eridani (green and topaz yellow) and Gamma Delphini (pale blue and light yellow). Almach is certainly very vivid.
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blb
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I have always been partial to Albireo but I looked at both doubles tonight and compared them. Albireo is in a beautiful star field. Almach, the stars are closer together and the colors appear more intense to me. Tonight I will have to go with Almach, much to my surprise. Tomorrow who knows, it's so subjective.
Clear skies, Buddy
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Ziggy943
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Since Alberio was my first double star I'll have to vote for it.
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Dave Mitsky
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Aesthetically speaking, I suppose that Albireo is the prettier of the two, but Almach has always seemed more "double star-like" to me.
Dave Mitsky
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De gustibus non est disputandum.
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blb
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Aesthetically speaking, I suppose that Albireo is the prettier of the two, but Almach has always seemed more "double star-like" to me.
Dave Mitsky
Thats what I was trying to say. Thanks Dave
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kaaikop
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Wow, I just trained my C6 on Almach by coincidence!
I didn't know it was such a beauty!
I had to run inside and google it to get some info, I had never ever seen such a deep blue star.
Like a lot of folks here, Albireo was my first double star ever, and I will never forget the first time I saw it through a scope,
but Almach seems to have even deeper contrast, I have to go back out to look at it some more!
I had the "Sunday night blues" before I decided to get my little C6 out, now this just puts a big smile back on my face
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