re: year-round visibility...

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phil — 10/17/2003 1:14:33 PM (archived)

Sirius is a main sequence A type star, not a blue giant. A blue giant at only 8LY away would be MUCH brighter and might ionize the hydrogen our solar system.

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Vega, the standard bright star - Success_Machine - 10/17/2003 12:45:26 AM
- Saw it the first time last week............ - Carl - 10/17/2003 3:42:13 PM
- re: Distance might be the key - SteveS - 10/17/2003 1:44:11 PM
  - re: Apparent and Absolute - Raoul - 10/17/2003 2:48:12 PM
    - re: Apparent and Absolute - SteveS - 10/17/2003 3:47:33 PM
  - re: Found it - SteveS - 10/17/2003 2:33:31 PM
- year-round visibility... - Nick Hoffman - 10/17/2003 7:32:57 AM
  - On the right track as usual Nick - SteveS - 10/17/2003 11:42:58 PM
  - I think you're right, Nick - Fox - 10/17/2003 8:49:53 PM
  - re: year-round visibility... - phil - 10/17/2003 1:14:33 PM
- re: Vega, the standard bright star - RobVG - 10/17/2003 2:51:27 AM

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