Albireo, Beta Cygni

Albireo is perhaps the most observed double star in the sky. This is because os its amazing colors.

This image was captured with the Celestron C14″, part of the Virtual Telescope Project, with a set of color filters. The OTA in installed on a Paramount ME mount, by Software Bisque. The CCD camera is a SBIG ST8-XME. The image scale is of 0.62″/pixel.

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