Regulus
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Regulus is the brightest object in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation designated α Leonis, which is Latinized to Alpha Leonis, and abbr
Regulus through Celestron CGEM DX 1100 @ F6.3, Canon T3i, Televue 4X Powermate, ISO 800, 30 sec exposure
Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo (right tip, below is bright Jupiter in 2004).
Approximate true-color reconstruction of Regulus based on interferometric imaging
Blue straggler
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A blue straggler is a type of star that is more luminous and bluer than expected. Typically identified in a stellar cluster, they have a higher effective temperature than the main sequence turnoff poi
Regulus
…8.13 Regulus C Right ascension 10h 08m 12.897s Declination +11° 59′ 48.88″ Apparent magnitude (V) 13.50 Characteristics Regulus A Evolutionary stage Blue straggler Spectral type B8 IVn U−B color index −0.36 B−V color index −0.11 Variable type Suspected Regulus BC Evolutionary stage Main sequence Spectral type K2…
A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6397, with a number of bright blue stragglers present
NGC 6752, a globular cluster that contains a high number of blue straggler stars
47 Tucanae contains at least 21 blue stragglers near its core.