Albiero double

[legion48]

I managed an hour or so last night starting about 21:30. I planned on just having a mooch round visually but t about 22:00 I noticed that Cygnus, or more specifically, Albiero, had hove into view over the neighbours rooftop. I was reminded of the lovely image Blink posted a week or so ago and decided to have a look myself. I could see it naked eye but the scope/tripod was just a touch too low. I left the scope tracking along the neighbours guttering and went inside for a cuppa. Half an hour later when I checked, Albiero was nicely centered in the eyepiece. It look so nice I couldn't resist lugging the lappy and Toucam out to catch a quick image.

P.S. The tiny speck at far left central is the mag 8.96 SAO 87310.

[legion48]

Rats! Wrong forum. Could a mod move it please?

[lunator]

L48

Very nice pic.

I moved the thread now

[geppetto]

A fine picture

Caught the colours well 8)

[centroid]

Nice 'shot'!!

Like the colours, just about right.

Dave

[anthony]

Lovely job!

Anthony

[Whippy]

Nice one, Albeiro is one of my faves .

Tony..

[cygnusx1]

Lovely capture!

BTW whats the seperation in LY btwn the two?

[legion48]

Thanks for the comment all.

Lovely capture!

BTW whats the seperation in LY btwn the two?

According to a book I have the seperation is 4400 AU. I make that, roughly, 26 Light days?

[Jaffa007]

That's a great image mate, can't get over the colours!

James

[Astroman]

L48 is close enough-I get 25.45 light days. Nice one!

[barkis]

Albireo annual proper motion 0.01 arc seconds. Physically connected, but no orbital motion has been detected

The A star, has a spectroscopic companion, but too close for telescopic resolution. The B companion show a hydrogen emission spectrum.

The distance between the two components could be filled with 55 Solar Systems edge to edge.

Information from our good friend Robert Burnham. I love these books.

That's a lovely picture of the pair L48.

Ron.

[FLO]

Really nice, clearly shows the difference in size and colour