If there's star in its heyday, observable from Earth, that star is Canopus.
At 310 light years from our Solar System and shinning 13.600 times brighter than the Sun, giant navy blue-cyan star Canopus is the archetypal spiked star just as for millenia people had envisioned them.
With a diameter 65 times as wide as the Sun, if Canopus was moved to where Sirius is in the sky, this amazing star would cast shadows at night on Earth. It would also be visible during daytime.
MEADE 14” LX200, SBIG ST2K. Exposure time: 0.005 seconds in high resolution. Image development in CCDops, Maxim DL5 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
|
