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Cor Caroli, Abhijit Juvekar

Cor Caroli

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Also called Alpha Canum Venaticorum, binary star located 110 light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Consisting of a brighter component (A) of visual magnitude 2.9 and a companion (B) of magnitude 5.5.

The two stars are 19.6 arcseconds apart in the sky and are easily resolved in small telescopes.

Cor Caroli (Latin for “Heart of Charles”) was named after the executed English king Charles I by Sir Charles Scarborough.

Stack of 45 mins data at Gain 0 Bin 2x2

ZWO 1600MM-PRO, GSO 2X Barlow on GSO 6 inch RC.

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Cor Caroli, Abhijit Juvekar