[Chaos-l] Nu DRA and asterism...

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi again all.  I found an image with the asterism on it:

http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_search?v=poss2ukstu_red&r=17+33+12.00&d=%2B55+09+00.0&e=J2000&h=60.0&w=60.0&f=gif&c=none&fov=NONE&v3=

The asterism is at the center-left of the image: two parallel lines of  
stars, one with three and one with 2 plus the center double.  As this  
photo goes "deeper" than what i was seeing from my front yard, the arc  
of faint stars between the two lines is much more obvious here.  Maybe  
from a dark site it'll stand out better visually.

I haven't found a reference to this one yet, but i'm still slogging  
through the SAC asterism database,

> On Jun 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Jon Stewart-Taylor  
> <joncst at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all.  When i was observing double star Nu Draconis thursday  
>> night from my yard, i noticed that there's a vaguely Cepheus-shaped  
>> asterism in the same (1 deg) field of view of the pair.  I've  
>> looked on Sky Atlas 2000, and there's no NGC object recorded  
>> there.  A google search on Nu Draconis hasn't turned up anything  
>> interesting.


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