Astronomy Quiz ! ! !

Is the star that I look at night after night, through telescope after
telescope, binocular after binocular... all the way through winter
evenings!

Is that Leonardo
A new consellation above?
Bring him down!
Down, boy, down,
From Sheep's
Meadow.
Downy white,
That Leon,
Precious pup ~
4 pounds
Sterling.
I'll get down-filled
Goose
Pillow for you,
Too.

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entary (Brilliant One) wrote in message ...
Betelgeuse fit into this? It looks as red as a ruby

O yes!
Bette Midler, she sings at The Baths.
You know, those filty Roman tradition fetes, only These Baths entertained here
in decadent La Grande Pomme '70s, my fave decade. Peter Martin, too, played
pianno ~ all true, don't you know?

Now something about Ms. Minelli, too, ruby red slippers...but alas, cat's got
my tongue.

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Ah yes, The Divine Miss M.

Always liked her.

Double-A

entary (Brilliant One) wrote in message ...
Orion during my early A.M. strolls.

Double-A


Where do you stroll?

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Out through the streets beneath the Moon
Down to the marsh to hear a loon.
Look to the sky, the deathless stars,
Venus aglow, or maybe Mars.

But mostly to get my mail!

Double-A

(AA Institute) wrote

I need to clarify and perhaps re-phrase my analytical ranking of CE
Tauri as the *second* reddest star above magnitude 5. It's an
optimisation between *colour index* AND *brightness*. Yes TX Piscium
is redder, but have a look at its light curve over 5 years:-

http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/superst...i=on &ccdu=on

It spends most of its life well below magnitude 5. Also, carbon stars
are known to vary their redness in line with intrinsic brightness,
appearing redder at the *fainter* ends of their cycles.

Pulsating red M-type supergiants like Mu Cephei, CE Tauri, Antares,
Betelgeuse are in a different class altogether.

Generally speaking, *the* reddest naked eye star in the entire night
sky is undisputedly the Garnet Star in Cepheus (color index +2.35,
spectrum M2 Ia). The *second* reddest star in the entire night sky is
CE Tauri (color index +2.07, spectrum M2 Ib)... "The Ruby Star" as I
note here in my Red Stars Catalog:-

http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagen...r_catalog.html

Is the star that I look at night after night, through telescope after
telescope, binocular after binocular... all the way through winter
evenings! When I'm cold, it's warm, red colour draws me like... the
eyes of count dracula!!!



Okay, it you eliminate highly variable stars, then your "Ruby Star" is
clearly second place.

Tom
(really hoping not to provoke another sophomoric poem by "Brilliant
One")

Out through the streets beneath the Moon
Down to the marsh to hear a loon.
Look to the sky, the deathless stars,
Venus aglow, or maybe Mars.

But mostly to get my mail!

Double-A

Ah, okay.
Better check mine.
Got mail-phobia,
Doncha know?

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entary (Brilliant One) wrote in message ...
Tom
(really hoping not to provoke another sophomoric poem by "Brilliant
One")


Hush,
Mangy Tom Cat!

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If *you're* not sure whether its a blog or a dog... how do you expect
some thoughtful person who comes across your precious little pet to
know?!

AAI