- Constellation: Orion
- Right Ascension: 05h 55m 10.30s
- Declination: +07° 24′ 25.43"
- Distance: 700
Betelgeuse is a red giant star located in Orion. It is the largest star visible to the naked eye, if was located where our Sun is, it would extend out past the asteroid belt. It also a variable star with a magnitude range between 0 and 1.3. Attracting attention now as it is currently noticeably dimmer as one of the brightest stars in Orion. Because of its mass, it will have a short lifetime as stars go, and is expected to end as a supernova in less than a million years. At around 700 light years away it will be quite a show, with possibly brighter than a full moon at night and visible even during the day.
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- Category: Stars
- Telescope: GSO RC10
- Camera: ZWO A071 Color
- Constellation: Lyra
- Right Ascension: 18h 44m 20.34589s
- Declination: +39° 40′ 12.4533″
- Distance: 162 ly
Epsilon Lyrae is a a true binary star system with an orbit that is measured in hundred of thousands of years to complete an orbit. In addition, each star is also a binary star that can only be split using higher powers. For this reason, it is often called the Double Double star. In addition an even closer in star has been detected around one of the stars.
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- Category: Stars
- Telescope: GSO RC10
- Camera: ZWO A071 Color
- Constellation: Cygnus
- Right Ascension: 19h 30m 43.286s
- Declination: +27° 57′ 34.84″
- Distance: 430
Albireo or Beta Cygni, is one of the finest double stars in the northern hemisphere. Located at the "beak" of Cygnus the Swan, the two stars show a vivid contrast in color. Although the two stars don't seem to be a true binary due to their distance between them and their motion across the sky. Just two stars passing in the night. However both stars do have companion stars that are too close in to be resolved by optical means.
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- Category: Stars
- Telescope: GSO RC10
- Camera: ZWO A071 Color
- Constellation: Ophiuchus
- Right Ascension: 17h 57m 48.49803s
- Declination: +04° 41′ 36.2072"
- Distance: 6 ly
Barnard's Star is a red dwarf star located 6 light years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Despite being relatively close, it is unable to be seen with out a telescope due to its dim nature. Being close by, and due to its motion, it displays the highest proper motion across the sky of any discovered star. That is, it appears to move across the sky faster than any other star.
I attempt to image it every year to show its motion across the sky.
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- Category: Stars
Read more: Barnard's Star 2019
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
- Constellation: Camelopardalis
Kembles's Cascade is an asterism of unrelated stars that form some type of pattern. Kemble's cascade forms a line of brighter stars starting near the open cluster of NGC 1502 (upper right) that flows down towards the lower left of the image. It was named after a Franciscan friar named Father Lucian Kemble.
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- Category: Stars
- Telescope: EDT 80mm Reftactor
- Camera: ZWO A071 Color
- Constellation: Cepheus
- Right Ascension: 21h 43m 30.4609s
- Declination: +58° 46′ 48.166″
- Distance: 2,800 lly
Also known as Herschel's Garnet Star is a supersized red giant star. It is among one of the larger stars known. If it was located where our Sun is, the outer layer would reach beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The lifetime of massive stars like this are measured in millions of years. Mu Cephei will most likely end as a supernova; with either a neutron star or a black hole remaining. As a (super) red giant, it varies in magnitude between 3.4 and 5.1. It is an estimated distance of 2,800 light years away. Located near the Elephant Trunk Nebula the area has many areas of dust and gas clouds nearby.
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- Category: Stars
- Telescope: EDT 80mm Reftactor
- Camera: ZWO 1600 MM