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Old 27-05-2020, 09:12 AM
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Observing red stars

Hi all,
I have always enjoyed looking for coloured stars when observing visually, and at present I am gathering together a list of red stars to enjoy throughout the year. Does anyone know of a good online resource for this info, especially for the southern hemisphere - I'm sure it has probably already been done before!
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Old 27-05-2020, 11:40 AM
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Southern Carbon stars list PDF

hope this helps.
I have the original as Excel spreadsheet but too big to load here if you want to send me your email address I can send that if it suits better.


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Old 27-05-2020, 07:59 PM
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An excellent list Allan - pm'd you re Excel copy. Thank you.

I think I have about a dozen of these ticked off in my logs. So, a long way to go - I will need to be a lot more methodical to do justice to this list

An AS&T article “Red Stars in Orion” back in Feb/Mar 2016 got me interested. It listed 6 carbon star targets within Orion.
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"General Catalog of Galactic Carbon Stars" by C.B. Stephenson , 3rd ed. (2001)
318 pages, of which almost 300 is the catalog. Hope you have a lot of paper.


Original Paper by A. Alksnis, A. Balklavs, U. Dzervitis, I. Eglitis, O. Paupers and I. Pundure
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journ...article-p1.xml


<Late Edit> Catalog published by Stephenson, but the catalog was compiled by the authors stated </Late Edit>

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Southern Carbon stars list PDF

hope this helps.
I have the original as Excel spreadsheet but too big to load here if you want to send me your email address I can send that if it suits better.


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Apologies for what's probably a stupid question: how would one locate these stars using something like SkySafari, apart from entering RA/Dec?
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"General Catalog of Galactic Carbon Stars" by C.B. Stephenson , 3rd ed. (2001)
318 pages, of which almost 300 is the catalog. Hope you have a lot of paper.


Original Paper by A. Alksnis, A. Balklavs, U. Dzervitis, I. Eglitis, O. Paupers and I. Pundure
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journ...article-p1.xml


<Late Edit> Catalog published by Stephenson, but the catalog was compiled by the authors stated </Late Edit>
OICURMT, thanks for this, looks like I might need to stock up on toner cartridges as well! It would be good to be able to filter it down to stars brighter than say 9th magnitude or so for modest sized scopes.
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Apologies for what's probably a stupid question: how would one locate these stars using something like SkySafari, apart from entering RA/Dec?
Hi Patrick,
I had to think about this question.

I found entering the catalog ID (eg CGCS853) into Stellarium would show the objects location physically plus give the Alt/Az location for the specified time.

Hope this is what you meant.

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Hi Patrick,
I had to think about this question.

I found entering the catalog ID (eg CGCS853) into Stellarium would show the objects location physically plus give the Alt/Az location for the specified time.

Hope this is what you meant.

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Thanks Allan, precisely what I meant - Stellarium has the CGCS catalogue, but SkySafari appears not to.
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