Observation by Damian Peach: Our Nearest Red Neighbours

Uploaded by

Paul Downing

Observer

Damian Peach

Observed

2017 May 02 - 22:00

Uploaded

2017 May 19 - 14:39

Objects

Proxima-Centauri
Barnard's-Star

Equipment

27" CDK Scope
FLI CCD Camera

Exposure

5 mins per image

Location

Siding Spring, Australia

Target name

Red Dwarfs

Title

Our Nearest Red Neighbours

About this image

In this fascinating composite of three images Damian has captured three of the nearest stars to Earth all taken on the same night. He specifically used only RGB images to best render the star colours. All three of these red dwarfs have much the same deep orange colour. Wolf 359 is located in an especially barren field, so it really stands out. Damian comments how it is interesting to see how far all three objects have moved compared to the reference DSS images, especially Barnard's Star.

Files associated with this observation

wk21_17_redwarfs_2017_05_02_peach.jpg (121.7 kB)

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