Miscellaneous
Alpha Pegasi (Markab)
Markab is the bottom right-hand star in the Great Square of Pegasus. Shining at magnitude 2.48, it is a hot blue-white subgiant star around 5x larger than the Sun. It is 133 lightyears distant.
This image is the result of preliminary testing after observatory reconfiguration over the summer of 2020. It is the result of just over 20 minutes of data capture.
ZWO ASI071MC Pro camera, through an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien reflector.
Date: 05/09/2020
Photographer: Graham Wilcock
