Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  13 Aur)  ·  Alhajoth (α Aur  ·  The star Capella
Capella, Chad Leader
Capella
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Just a big, bright star in the sky. It's technically a multiple star system with a combined apparent magnitude of 0.08. The main pair are also G-type stars, like our Sun (hence the yellow color) - except about 2.5 times the mass.

I've been testing the optics on my RC8 w/Hotech flattener. I did a test shot of Capella and thought it, and the star field, looked pretty nice. So I went ahead and acquired 10 minutes on each RGB filter to try and make a picture. Gotta love the RC star spikes!

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