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Mira, the Wonderful, in Cetus (200mm 6DII).jpg

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The long-period variable star, Mira, in Cetus, here at right about a month after maximum brightness, when it was about magnitude 3. The star spends most of its roughly 330-day period too faint to see with the unaided eye. Mira is also Omicron Ceti. It was named Mire, Latin for “wonderful” by Johannes Hevelius in his Historiola Mirae Stellae (1662). The blue star at left is Delta Ceti.

I shot this Nov. 25, 2019, about a month after Mira’s predicted peak on Oct. 24, 2019. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira for more information about Mira.

This is a stack of 6 exposures, each 2 minutes with the Canon 200mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600, tracked with the LighTrack II tracker. An additional exposure through the Kenko Softon A filter and layered in adds the star glows.
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The long-period variable star, Mira, in Cetus, here at right about a month after maximum brightness, when it was about magnitude 3. The star spends most of its roughly 330-day period too faint to see with the unaided eye. Mira is also Omicron Ceti. It was named Mire, Latin for “wonderful” by Johannes Hevelius in his Historiola Mirae Stellae (1662). The blue star at left is Delta Ceti.<br /> <br /> I shot this Nov. 25, 2019, about a month after Mira’s predicted peak on Oct. 24, 2019. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira for more information about Mira. <br /> <br /> This is a stack of 6 exposures, each 2 minutes with the Canon 200mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600, tracked with the LighTrack II tracker. An additional exposure through the Kenko Softon A filter and layered in adds the star glows.