Lists of Doubles to Observe

Lists of Doubles to Observe

These links will take you to various sites that provide lists of doubles under various categories.

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1	Pretty Double Stars for Everyone A Sky and Telescope article, covering 42 nice doubles visible when Orion is high in the sky (summer in Australia).
2	More Pretty Double Stars The follow-up Sky and Telescope article, for the Australian winter, with 54 doubles listed. Though both this and the previous list are Northern hemisphere oriented, there are plenty visible in the southern skies.
3	Southern Double Star Gems Also from Sky and Telescope, a compilation of 13 doubles by Richard Jaworski, Director of the Double Star Section of the Astronomical Society of NSW and writer of the double star column in Sky and Space magazine.
4	The Spirit of 33 A project to observe doubles and report on the results. Includes lists of doubles in many parts of the sky.
5	Double Stars to Follow A short list but with interesting comments, from the Prairie Astronomy Club in the US. Some of the stars are too far north to observe from Brisbane.
6	600 Multiple Stars If you run out of other lists, this should keep you going for a while! Assembled by a group of interested amateurs, based to a large extent on Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, and arranged by constellation. You can copy this list into a word processing document for future use.
7	Find Double Stars A great, and very simple, search engine for finding doubles by constellation and separation.
8	Sky Charts (Cartes du Ciel) Excellent free planetarium software downloadable from this site, with good documentation. One of the catalogues that can be downloaded is the Washington Double Star catalogue. Stars from this catalogue are rendered in the sky image with small lines indicating the position angle of the double. You can use these to select doubles for observing. Right clicking on the star and selecting “Identification” brings up detailed information on magnitudes, separation, position angle etc.
9	The Washington Double Star Catalogue This is the definitive listing and reference.

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