6 easy doubles in Cassiopeia.

That's excellent news Aubrey, and a BIG well done on brining this exciting news to us. 

A K4i star!!! Not the 'M' star like so many of us thought it was... fascinating! What were your thoughts on the classification?

I have thoroughly enjoyed the journey you've brought us on over the past week and a half Aubrey. 

Keep your posts coming, they're always so interesting. 

Chat soon and clear skies, 

Darren. 

Fermidox wrote: Robin Leadbetter is well known in the BAA and frequently contributes to spectroscopy discussions. He has published work in professional journals and manages to be both thorough and yet readable. Well done Aubrey on stirring this interesting debate.

Finbarr.

Hi Finbarr. 

I never knew Robin's surname until you told us. 
By the way, on his website it is spelt Leadbeater. 
But thank you for sorting us out. 

Three Hills Observatory is where his scopes are located. 

Kind regards, 

Aubrey. 

Until_then-Goodnight! wrote: That's excellent news Aubrey, and a BIG well done on brining this exciting news to us. 

A K4i star!!! Not the 'M' star like so many of us thought it was... fascinating! What were your thoughts on the classification?

I have thoroughly enjoyed the journey you've brought us on over the past week and a half Aubrey. 

Keep your posts coming, they're always so interesting. 

Chat soon and clear skies, 

Darren. 

Initially I was greatly surprised by its new spectral class K4i. 
But subsequently I knew it made sense. 

35 B Cass is a mostly orange star after all. 
There is only a bit of red showing through. 

So thank you very much, everybody, for showing your interest in 35 Cass. 
There is still plenty of time to observe our star over the coming months. 

Sadly I won't be able to view the constellation for 1 or 2 months soon. 
Cassiopeia is directly overhead, and it is enormously difficult to arrange my alt - az mount for that position.

The next time I will be putting up my scope under clear skies I plan to observe M103 in full detail and find one more carbon star nearby. 

Clear skies,

Aubrey.  

Hi Aubrey, 

Many thanks for your message. Enjoy M103, it's a real beauty! 

Clear skies, 

Darren.