These are a couple of years old now but I noticed it has been a while since I posted anything. Took these on August 2015. Both were taken with a Nikon 3200 attached to a 6" Celestron Nextar 6SE. The first photograph is a stack of 19 x 10 second exposures of the star Schedar (α Cassiopeiæ) is a orange giant star about 230 light years away. It's 4-5 times more massive than the Sun and 42 times as big! (-Wiki-)
The second photograph is a single 15 second exposure of the star Vega (α Lyræ) only 25 light years away . It's just over 2 times the size of the Sun both in terms of mass and radius. Notably Vega was the North Polar Star about 12,000 years ago. (-Wiki-)
