Red stars

[mdstuart]

Just working through the pocket altas and last night (has red stars marked init) had a look at a red star in Lyra. Basically the star is about the same distance as the double double from Vega but the other side.

To be honest it blew me away. I look at lots of stars and the colour of this one was so intense. reminded me of the colour of prominences at the eclipse in Turkey!

So see if you can spot it. About mag 5 I think.

Mark

[lunator]

Hi Mark

Sounds like Kappa Lyra. A K2 giant CN carbon star

Cheers

Ian

[ashenlight]

Wow, gonna have to keep an eye out for this. Sounds a true sky bound ruby