Also know as its popular name La Superba, a giant red star, and one of the reddish known with a B-V index of 2.54. A carbon in the star's outer shell absorbs blue light giving its distinctive reddish light. Primary has a 160 day cycle in its magnitude variations. The star is in its final stages of its evolution and is expected to expel its outer layers in the future, and form a planetary nebula before shrinking down to become a slowly cooling white dwarf.
Y CVn
- Constellation: Canes Venatici
- Right Ascension: 12h 45m 07.826s
- Declination: +45° 26′ 24.93″
- Distance: 760 - 1000 ly
- Apparent Magnitude: +4.86 - +7.32
- Details
- Category: Stars
- Telescope: GSO RC10
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM