Distance between Polaris and its double?

Question

I couldn't see the double in my 12 X 60 binocs but I could see it using my 6 inch Newtonian. I'm curious if anybody has the distance in arcseconds. It seemed fairly close in my scope even at the highest power.

Answer 1

The Polaris binary has a separattion of about 18 arc-sec.

http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Misc/alph...

Polaris was thought to be a triple star system, but the faintest star is really a separate star.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...