Cassiopeia’s Twin

Hi!
This is the sketch of nice, bright asterism called “W”. Nice object to observe with low power eyepiece or binoculars.

Object: “W” asterism in Dragon
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with SWAN 20mm
Filter: Moon&Skyglow
Date: August 20th, 2010.
Place: Wrocław, Poland
Weather: Good. Seeing 3/5. Transparency 3/5
Technique: Graphite pencil.
Tooling: GIMP 2
Observer: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

2 thoughts on “Cassiopeia’s Twin”

  1. Aleksander,

    This is interesting. Nice sketch. Do you have approximate coordinates for this asterism?

    Frank

  2. Frank,
    Thank You.
    I have coordinates for this object: RA 18h35m , DEC +72°18′. Try to serch in the line from Vega to Polaris in 2/3 of this line. Asterism is near x Draconis.

    Aleksander

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