I came across an attractive group of stars or asterism earlier this week, and although others have surely noted it I haven't seen it referred to in my observing books and will mention it here: I was looking at open cluster IC 4996 in Cygnus and found a small semicircle of stars -- a miniature Corona Borealis -- just south of it. With a couple of fainter stars forming a "handle," the group is shaped just like a sickle, and I so named it. The tip of the sickle is 5th magnitude 29 Cygni, and the other stars making up the blade and handle vary in magnitude from 6.5 to 9.1. Its coordinates are approximately RA 20:13 Decl + 37.1ยบ.
NexStar 8i SCT, Orion 80ED APO refractor, Orion 120 mm EQ refractor, 3.5-inch Questar
