{"id":1012,"date":"2017-01-06T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:36:28","slug":"charioteers-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Charioteer&#8217;s Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 2016 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/skyandtelescope.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky &amp; Telescope<\/a>, Matt Wedel wrote about his observations of a crucifom asterism on the Auriga \/ Lynx border. I took a few minutes last week to sketch the field as seen with small binos (8 \u00d7 42s). I was unable to resolve any stars in NGC 2281, of course; it was more of a suggestion than anything when viewed with handhelds. My goal on our next clear night is to return to the view with the 12 \u00d7 70s on a tripod.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1013\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1013\" class=\"wp-image-1013\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ch-930x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch of Charioteer's Cross asterism\" width=\"400\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ch-930x1024.jpg 930w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ch-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ch-768x846.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Psi (\u03a8) Aurigae through 8 \u00d7 42 binoculars, 6.5\u00b0 field of view. January 1, 2017. Image: JR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 2016 issue of Sky &amp; Telescope, Matt Wedel wrote about his observations of a crucifom asterism on the Auriga \/ Lynx border. I took a few minutes last week to sketch the field as seen with small binos (8 \u00d7 42s). I was unable to resolve any stars in NGC 2281, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,61],"tags":[69,68],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binoculars","category-observing","tag-asterisms","tag-binoculars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}