Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  6 bet01 Cyg  ·  6 bet02 Cyg  ·  Albireo  ·  The star Albireo (β1Cyg)  ·  The star β2Cyg
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10000 Stars (Alberio), Joel Shepherd
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10000 Stars (Alberio)

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10000 Stars (Alberio)

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The monsoon season in New Mexico has been quite wet this year, so not many opportunities for imaging over the last month. This weekend the skies cleared for a bit, so I did a short RGB session with Alberio to give the gear some exercise. When I was star-aligning the stacks, PixInsight was reporting 12k-13k candidate stars, so as this is cropped a bit, there may well be 10k stars in this little square ... not to mention the two main stars, of course.

Alberio is about 420 light-years distant: it's unknown whether it's an optical double only, or whether the two stars are gravitationally bound.

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10000 Stars (Alberio), Joel Shepherd

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