Rare Luminous Blue Variable star - G79.29+0.46 - Spitzer Space Telescope (Rudy Pohl)

Rare Luminous Blue Variable star - G79.29+0.46 - Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA's Spitzer Infra Red Space Telescope.

This image features the rare luminous blue variable star G79.29+0.46, which is located in the Cygnus X region of the sky between the star Deneb and the nebulous region of Sadr. It is the star in the centre of the two concentric, red circles.

This image is a close-up of a widefield image previously posted with this subject. For a more complete technical description about this star and the importance of Infra Red imaging go here: https://www.astrobin.com/1yjp6c/E/?nc=user .

Data acquisition: Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA

Data processing: Rudy Pohl

Image: RGB image as per colour mapping below

Colour mapping:

.... red channel: 24 μm Spitzer

.... green channel: 8 μm Spitzer

.... blue channel: 5.8 μm Spitzer

Processing software: ESA/ESO/NASA Fits Liberator 3, Photoshop CS5

Processing note: Considerable star removal has been done in Photoshop in order to highlight the nebulousity, gas and dust structures.

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Other
Unknown

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