As I wait for nebula and galaxies to come into view, I usualy look at stars and star clusters. Now that is is all about EAA, why not take pictures.
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or Aql. Altair is an A-type main-sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle asterism; the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega. It is located at a distance of 16.7 light-years (5.1 parsecs) from the Sun.[16]: 194 Altair is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby interstellar cloud, an accumulation of gas and dust.[17][18]
This image is 25 15 second frame taken on August 22, 2024 from my front yard, using by 8″ Celestron telescope on an AVX mount using my ZWO ASI2600MC camera.
