Summer Bulls, Beehives and a high speed star
Taken by James Roger Samworth on August 16, 2024 @
Nailstone, UK
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Date Taken: 2024:08:17 08:15:14
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Poniatowski’s Bull is an obsolete constellation. The stars were picked for the resemblance of their arrangement to the Hyades group which form the "head" of Taurus. The constellation Taurus Poniatowski was placed in the skies in 1777 by the Polish-Lithuanian astronomer Marcin Poczobut. He invented it to honour his king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, who was monarch of both Poland and Lithuania who was a noted patron of the arts and sciences.
It contains Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star. At a distance of 5.96 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and is the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its stellar mass is about 16% of the Sun's, and it has 19% of the Sun's diameter. Despite its proximity, the star has a dim apparent visual magnitude of +9.5 and is invisible to the unaided eye. The star is named after Edward Emerson Barnard, an American astronomer who in 1916 measured its proper motion as 10.3 arcseconds per year relative to the Sun, the highest known for any star.
Nearby is IC4665 ,also known as the “Summer Beehive”. I have imaged this before (with a comet!) (https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=185893) with the 80mm ‘scope, but the wider field just using the 50mm lens is perhaps a nicer view of the cluster.
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