Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)
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La Superba (Y Canum Venaticorum - one of the reddest 'carbon stars'), gigiastro
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La Superba (Y Canum Venaticorum - one of the reddest 'carbon stars')

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(...) "take a look at rust-colored Y Canum Venaticorum. Y CVn is a variable star with a visual magnitude slowly ranging from 5 to 6. (...) Y is deep red not just because it is relatively cool

like other Arcturus red giants. Carbon-containing molecules like C2, C3, CN, and SiC in the star's

atmosphere absorb much of the blue light from the star, leaving it with an unusually vivid reddish orange color. The beauty of its spectrum earned it the name La Superba

from the 19th-century Italian spectroscopy pioneer Pietro Angelo Secchi".

(Sky & Telescope, May 2000, page 101)

darkness: Bortle's class 7~8

seeing 2~3 (Antoniadi)

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La Superba (Y Canum Venaticorum - one of the reddest 'carbon stars'), gigiastro