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To: Red Badger

What are the 2 bright stars, one red, one blue?


5 posted on 08/11/2020 12:02:42 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hiya kids, hiya, hiya!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

I don’t know.

I’ll ask God when I see Him.

He knows them all by name...................


6 posted on 08/11/2020 12:07:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
What are the 2 bright stars, one red, one blue?

Based on their colors and distance apart, they might be Kappa Velorum and N Velorum.

10 posted on 08/11/2020 1:12:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

The neat thing about them is due to the telescope that took the photo they form a halo and a cross. Those are called artifacts from the support for the reflecting mirror in the middle of the telescope. :)


18 posted on 08/12/2020 5:37:45 AM PDT by xp38
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