Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  37 Cyg)  ·  NGC 6910  ·  The star Sadr (γ Cyg
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Sadr and Nebulosity, Tony Brown
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The star Sadr (γ Cygni), named derived from the Arabic for 'chest' it's the 68th brightest by visual magnitude in the night sky and the second brightest, after Deneb in Cygnus. It is classified as an F8 Lab spectral type which means it is a Supergiant. Compare to the sun it is 12 times its mass and 150 times its radius, a big star.

I took this image which is battling with a 85% moon and a deteriorating weather front in the form of low cloud and eventual fog - November UK skies!

Anyway this is about 1.5 hours so nowhere near enough - I'll be coming back for sure and I would love to start doing some mosaics of this area.

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Sadr and Nebulosity, Tony Brown