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APOD with eps Aur

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Posted: December 5, 2009 - 4:19pm

Toaday's APOD is with Epsilon Aurigae, see:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091205.html   ,
very nice!

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Posted: December 5, 2009 - 9:15pm

Nice catch. Anyone want to offer an estimate of its brightness based on that image? :)

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Posted: December 26, 2009 - 8:03pm

what a beautiful photo! It looks like a 3.4 , but it's tough because the photo exaggerates the star's colors. Gamma Cass made it on APOD, apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091224.html, also a nice photo.

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