After I located Hind's Crimson Star in my 10" Mak'Cass using a 12mm Nagler
(300X) last Saturday night up at the Peak I invited a few others to have a
look at it. We all agreed that it was one of the reddest stars we've ever
seen. It looked to me to be at about variable minimum, mag. 10 in
brightness. After looking further at a red M-stars catalog, there is one
other star with very similar stellar and variable propertie; and that star
is T Lyrae, R6 spectra, mag. range 7.5-9.3, a very red star.
Peter Natscher
> From: "Rich N." <RNAPO@No-Spam>
> Reply-To: The Astronomy Connection <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:39:55 -0800
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> Subject: [TAC]
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> I had my AP 130EDT APO out last night. The seeing wasn't too bad,
> but not great. One of the more interesting objects I looked at was
> Hind's Crimson Star in Lepus. It was small, not very bright but
> very red. I was looking at it with 14mm and 10.5mm Pentax SMC-XL.
>
> Rich
>