Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Minor (UMi)  ·  Contains:  The star Kochab (βUMi)
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Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris, Thomas Richter
Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris
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Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris

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Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris, Thomas Richter
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Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris

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It should only be a collimation test. But I liked the picture so much that I exposed a little longer. It's only a star, but sometimes the simple is also attractive.

Object description (wikipedia.org):
Beta Ursae Minoris (β Ursae Minoris, abbreviated β UMi, Beta UMi), formally named Kochab /ˈkoʊkæb/, is the brightest star in the bowl of the Little Dipper asterism (which is part of the constellation of Ursa Minor), and only slightly fainter than Polaris, the northern pole star and brightest star in Ursa Minor. Kochab is 16 degrees from Polaris and has an apparent visual magnitude of 2.08. The distance to this star from the Sun can be deduced from the parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, yielding a value of 130.9 light-years (40.1 parsecs).

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Kochab - Beta Ursae Minoris, Thomas Richter