• Constellation: Cancer
  • Right Ascension: 08 56 40.1
  • Declination: +19 50 57

T Cancri is a red giant variable that gets it's deep reddish color from carbon that is dredged up from its core that forms a fine soot layer that scatters away the blue and green light, much like a sunset does. T Cancri varies in brightness from a magnitude 7.6 down to 10.5 in the green light band over a period of around 482 days. It was around magnitude 8.6 when this image was taken.

  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: Atik 314l+