starquake
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Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
#5380508 - 08/22/12 05:26 AM
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hi,
just recently I've decided to start a new project, mainly to keep my "astro-mood" high. one night I've introduced WZ Cas, a nice deeply red star with a bluish companion to my friend and she showed me RS Cyg. I was thinking that there maybe even more spectacular stars like these and that's how my colour-fever started.
so I've started to collect information and catalogues of stars that were REALLY colourful visually: variable stars, red giants, carbon stars, binaries with a nicely contrasting companion or simply stars with a remarkable colour.
here's the first bucket of stars I've "catalogued", currently all of them are in a fine position on the sky for the Northern hemisphere observers:
HIP 100155
Albireo
T Lyrae
U Cygni
AX Cygni
RS Cygni
WDS H 4 114
for larger images and detailed observation logs for these objects, please visit my TVICS page: here it is
if you know any other stars you think I should visit at this time of the year or later, please let me know. sketches are also welcome, feel free to hijack this thread!
thank you and clear skies!
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niteskystargazer
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/05/09
Loc: 41-43'-28" N 87-42'-39" W
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: starquake]
#5380967 - 08/22/12 11:54 AM
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Starquake,
Nice capture of HIP 100155, Albireo, T Lyrae, U Cygni, AX Cygni RS Cygni & WDS H 4114  .
CS,KLU,
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Tom
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Jef De Wit
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Reged: 03/06/09
Loc: Hove, Belgium
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: niteskystargazer]
#5381096 - 08/22/12 01:34 PM
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Nice sketches and interesting project!
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JeanB
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
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#5381189 - 08/22/12 02:28 PM
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Very nice project that should keep your enthousiasm at a high level. These are a beautiful set of sketches. I wish I could see them (your sketches) at a higher magnification.
Very fine work starquake!
Jean
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Rutilus
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#5381390 - 08/22/12 04:37 PM
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Nice work.
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starquake
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
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#5382033 - 08/23/12 12:33 AM
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thanks all for your kind comments
@JeanB: you can see the larger images on the page I've linked at the bottom of the original post. once there, click on any thumbnail to get the full size sketch. good luck!
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frank5817
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: starquake]
#5383661 - 08/23/12 10:33 PM
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Ferenc,
These are all beauties. U Cyg gets just as red as T Lyr in your fine sketches when it nears minimum magnitude.
Excellent post.
Frank
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JeanB
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Reged: 07/11/11
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: starquake]
#5384219 - 08/24/12 10:04 AM
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@JeanB: you can see the larger images on the page I've linked at the bottom of the original post. once there, click on any thumbnail to get the full size sketch.
Sorry for that. 
Imagine! I found them already gorgeous as they look. They are even more awesome now!!!
Jean
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rolandlinda3
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Reged: 01/24/06
Loc: Crozet VA 22932
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#5384818 - 08/24/12 03:56 PM
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This is a very nice series. Wonderful idea. We do something similar in a non-sketch form as we run new observers through a few stars, so they begin to appreciate how they are unique visually.
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GlennLeDrew
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#5386747 - 08/25/12 05:37 PM
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Two more carbon stars which come to mind; V Aql and S Cep. The latter has a large range of variability, and I don't know its current magnitude, not having observed it for more than a year.
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starquake
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#5419011 - 09/13/12 11:46 AM
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Thanks all for your comments, and especially thank you Glenn for the hints, I'll check these stars as soon as possible, especially now that Cepheus is in a fine position on my sky.
I've just added two more colorful sketches to the collection:
WZ Cas
Mu Cephei
WZ Cas is my all time favorite, it's really like a small-scale Albireo with its contrasting blue companion, and Mu Cephei (or Herschel's Garnet Star) is a famous supergiant and superluminous star.
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Ibmelrod
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Reged: 10/18/04
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: starquake]
#5422962 - 09/15/12 09:13 PM
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Great project and fine website!
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starquake
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#5705687 - 02/28/13 04:31 PM
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Unfortunately we had a terribly cloudy period behind us, so I had a very limited observing time. So I only have two more stars to add to the list, but I hope things will get better now.
Almach (Gamma Andromedae)
UU Aurigae
Almach is a very nice colour contrasting binary with large difference in the brightness of its components. UU Aurigae is a variable star with a very nice orange/red colour. Both very bright, so easy target for smaller scopes too.
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PeterDob
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Reged: 07/29/05
Loc: Carů, Italy
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Re: Tour of Visually Colourful Stars
[Re: starquake]
#5708153 - 03/02/13 03:38 AM
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Ah... Fantastic and very interesting work, Ferenc. I'm glad to see how passionate you are about stars with obvious colour because this is something that is often neglected. Keep up the good work!
Peter
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Ed D
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#5708289 - 03/02/13 08:09 AM
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Amazing catalog of colorful star sketches. 
Ed D
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starquake
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#5719132 - 03/07/13 07:22 PM
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Thank you all for your compliments.
Here's one more from this evening:
R Leonis
A nice bright orange variable star.
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