I suffer from a severe case of double
star fever, having caught the bug in the early 1960s when a high school friend showed me Mizar (Zeta [ÞÆ] Ursae Majoris) through a small reflecting telescope. Before long, I had purchased a telescope of my own and began observing double and multiple
stars with relentless abandon. A half-century later, I still ply the night sky with a telescope, chasing down cosmic gem sets that have thus far eluded my eye.
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