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Rho Ophiuchi

Last night we went star gazing again. I've been focusing on looking through binoculars and seeing what I can see. I looked at some old favorites, Mizar and Alcor in the Big Dipper, the Coat Hanger, Sagitta, but then decided to try to find something new. I recently got a binoculars highlights book, to help me find things I can see with just binocs, and it's been fun trying to find the things it points out. I started to look around the constellation Scorpius and found Rho Ophiuchi, a triple star. And yes, this isn't a photo, but I think this section may start including drawings too.

A digital sketch done on a dark blue background that has several squares on it, one with three dots in it where one is larger, the other says "Rho Ophiuchi: A type of star near the conestellation Scoprius, close to Antares". Below that box are some arrows coming from the a dot, the boxes are the details about Rho. It also says "Seen in Binoculars"