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Mike Loffland
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Binocular Universe: The Double Cluster and Friends
By: Phil Harrington
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Sarkikos
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Love the article but hate the format. It's too wide. Even when I set the text to smallest, I have to keep shifting the cursor back and forth to read everything.
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Sarkikos
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Phil,
I downloaded your article as a PDF file and found it much easier to read in that format. I especially like Stock 2. It looks surprisingly like a person through a small rich field telescope or medium-size binoculars. Many amateurs don't know that he is standing there so close to the famous Double Cluster. My daughter giggles everytime she sees the Muscleman. 
Mike
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PhilH
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Quote:
Phil,
I downloaded your article as a PDF file and found it much easier to read in that format. I especially like Stock 2. It looks surprisingly like a person through a small rich field telescope or medium-size binoculars. Many amateurs don't know that he is standing there so close to the famous Double Cluster. My daughter giggles every time she sees the Muscleman.
Mike
Thanks, Mike. The Muscleman is a lot of fun!
I've also contact Mike Loffland (CN Web Guru) about the width of the article, since I'm seeing the same thing. Don't know why this one looks different from the rest, but I'm sure he'll fix it ASAP.
Thanks,
Phil
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Phil Harrington
Contributing editor, Astronomy magazine
Author: Star Ware || Star Watch || Touring the Universe through Binoculars || et al...
Binocular Universe
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Doug76
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I could care less about the width. I'm just glad to get another good article from one of my favorites. Nice Phil. You are missed in the magazine.
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PhilH
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I could care less about the width. I'm just glad to get another good article from one of my favorites. Nice Phil. You are missed in the magazine.
Thanks, Doug. I really appreciate that.
FYI, I just shot off a piece on summer binocular stargazing to the magazine, so look for that next year. Whether that evolves into a regular quarterly feature, time will tell.
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Phil Harrington
Contributing editor, Astronomy magazine
Author: Star Ware || Star Watch || Touring the Universe through Binoculars || et al...
Binocular Universe
http://www.philharrington.net
http://www.observingsites.com
"Two eyes are better than one!"
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Gregklu
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The article is a hard read.I cannot recognize any stick figures. Nothing is "circled" in the figure as described in the article.
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Doug76
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I hope it does Phil, at least that. I'll put in a word to the Big Guy Upstairs. 
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Doug
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The Universe, the light of God, in all it's majesty
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1 apo refractor, 90mm
1 SCT, 8 inch
UO Abbe Volcano Tops
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Panoptic 24mm
Carton 100mm f/13 under construction
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PhilH
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Look at the PDF version .
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Phil Harrington
Contributing editor, Astronomy magazine
Author: Star Ware || Star Watch || Touring the Universe through Binoculars || et al...
Binocular Universe
http://www.philharrington.net
http://www.observingsites.com
"Two eyes are better than one!"
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Look at the PDF version .
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ArizonaScott
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Excellent article, Phil! At a recent gathering my son hunted down several of these objects with a rich-field scope and SA2000. He could easily make out the Muscleman figure in Stock 2 and had very little trouble locating some of the clusters in Cass. His first star-hop, I was very proud!
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Scott
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markkilner
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Great article. The Double Cluster has always been my favourite deep-sky object; I never get tired of looking at it (or should that be "them"?).
As for Messier's curious omission of it from his catalogue, Stephen James O'Meara offers an interesting theory in Appendix B of his book Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects. To summarise very briefly, he suggests that Messier (who was only really interested in comets) ignored the Double Cluster because it was always outside his preferred searching cometary area, and so it didn't make the list of "objects that could be confused with comets".
I'm not sure I buy all of the arguments that O'Meara puts forward, but it's as good a theory as I've heard to date.
Mark
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