A colorful star pairing in Pisces (Drew Evans)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pisces (Psc) · Contains: 8 Psc · 8 kap Psc · 9 Psc · The star 9 Psc · The star κ Psc

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A colorful star pairing in Pisces

Last month I found this peculiar and colorful pairing of stars in the constellation of Pisces. Both are variable giant stars in the "Circlet" which represents the head of the constellation. As seen, both vary greatly in spectral class.

8 κ Piscium (kappa Piscium) is the blue/white star upper left while 9 Piscium is the yellow star beneath it. There are dozens of faint galaxies beyond these stars, which reside in our Milky Way Galaxy, as seen in the annotated image. Some as faint as magnitude 13. North is up.

OTA: Sharpstar SCA260
Mount: iOptron CEM120
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Gain: 100
Cooling Temperature: -10 degrees celsius

Filters:
Chroma Red 🔴 60s x 40 = 40m
Chroma Green 🟢60s x 35 = 35m
Chroma Blue 🔵60s x 38 = 40m
Auto-guiding: ZWO ASI174MM Mini and ZWO OAG-L
Auto-focusing: ZWO EAF
Control: ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Calibrated in Astro Pixel Processor with flats, darks and dark flats. Processed in Pixinsight.

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RA (center)	23h26m57s.778
RA (top/left)	23h27m21s.919
RA (top/right)	23h24m59s.999
RA (bottom/right)	23h26m33s.701
RA (bottom/left)	23h28m56s.940

Dec (center)	+01°12′05″.51
Dec (top/left)	+01°41′22″.33
Dec (top/right)	+01°07′41″.95
Dec (bottom/right)	+00°42′49″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	+01°16′29″.11

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