Finding UY Scuti

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Sky And Telescope



There Be Monsters Here! How to Find the Biggest Star

By: Bob King | May 25, 2016



At ~1,000 times the size of the Sun, Betelgeuse is an impressive star to be sure, but it's no match for UY Scuti, currently the largest star known with a diameter around 1,700 times that of the Sun. It's a crazy-bright candle, too, with a luminosity 340,000 times greater than the Sun.

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You might think that such an enormous body would be easily visible with the naked eye, and it might be were it not 9,500 light-years away and squarely located in the Milky Way's Great Rift. After battling distance and dust, UY never gets brighter than magnitude +9 but can dip as low as +11.

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Constellation-guide.com




Scutum Constellation



Scutum constellation lies in the southern sky. Its name means “the shield” in Latin. It is the fifth smallest constellation in the sky.

The constellation was originally introduced by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century. Hevelius named it Scutum Sobiescianum, Shield of Sobieski, in honour of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski, who had been victorious in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

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[pickinduck]

That's pretty cool. Are you going to go after it?

[sherlew99]

Yes, I hope to try to find it next month.