Vesta and Metis

Since finding asteroid Vesta on Monday i've been watching its slow
movement each night with 10x42 binoculars. It's like a secret little
friend in the sky. I happened to notice in SkyTools that asteroid
Metis is nearby. Last night using the TV76 it was an easy starhop a
field or two north to find little Metis. At mag 9.5 Metis is quite a
bit dimmer than Vesta but easily visible in the 3" scope. I was unable
to see it in the binoculars. On the 14th Metis will pass just south of
the nice double star 94 Aqr.

-Florian

Just came in from checking Vesta and Metis. They both just fit within =
the same 30x field in my TV76. ;-)

-Florian

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:01:44 GMT, "Florian"
wrote:

Just came in from checking Vesta and Metis. They both just fit within the same 30x field in my TV76. ;-)

-Florian


But what eyepiece, or FOV?

But what eyepiece, or FOV?


16mm Tele Vue T5, 2.6=B0 FOV.

-Florian

Playing with HNSky and following Vesta and Metis over the next few=20
months i see they are basically traveling in parallel paths and=20
stay within 5=B0 of each other until February next year when Vesta=20
starts to pull ahead. I guess i just like simple little alignments=20
like this. I'm easy to entertain. ;-)

-Florian