Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Eridanus (Eri)
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Rigel Kentaurus, Wes Smith
Rigel Kentaurus
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Rigel Kentaurus

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
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Rigel Kentaurus, Wes Smith
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Rigel Kentaurus

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A deceptively difficult object to capture . At a native 2540mm using sub-frames  the results were ,shall we say , unsatisfactory  so while waiting  for the gas giants to rise I gave our closest star system a go with the 3 x barlow and videoed them at 60FPS in average seeing conditions. Currently 6.6 arc seconds apart , this gives an AU distance  of  24 .

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Rigel Kentaurus, Wes Smith