swap_horiz RR Lyrae Alternatives

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Sirius

Sirius is the most luminous star visible from Earth. It’s a binary star system consisting of a brilliant white A-type ma...

Navigation Binary A Type Brightest Star

9.2 Excellent

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Arcturus

Arcturus is a prominent K-type giant star located in the constellation Boötes. It’s notable for being the brightest star...

Orange Giant Northern Sky K Type

9.2 Excellent

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Vega

Vega is a main sequence A-type star located in the constellation Lyra approximately 25 light-years from Earth. It’s nota...

Lyra Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

9.2 Excellent

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Altair

Altair is a brilliant A-type main-sequence star located within the constellation Aquila. Situated just 17 light-years fr...

Aquila Nearby Main Sequence A Type

9.1 Excellent

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Aldebaran

Aldebaran is a red giant star located in the constellation Taurus approximately 65 light-years from Earth. As the bright...

Navigation Red Giant Taurus

9.1 Excellent

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Capella

Capella is the brightest star in Auriga and the sixth brightest in the night sky, a system of two giant binary pairs abo...

Yellow Giant Auriga G Type

8.9 Great

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Mira

Omicron Ceti, prototype of long-period Mira-type variable stars, pulsating over a roughly 332-day cycle between naked-ey...

Giant Variable Cetus M Type

8.9 Great

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Fomalhaut

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in Piscis Austrinus, about 25 light-years away, and hosts a prominent debris disk that y...

Navigation Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

8.8 Great

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Beta Pictoris

A young A-type star in Pictor notable for a circumstellar debris disk discovered in 1984 and hosting at least two direct...

Pictor Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

8.8 Great

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HR 8799

An A-type star in Pegasus that in 2008 became the first multi-planet system to be directly imaged, with four confirmed g...

Pegasus Direct Imaging Multi Planet Main Sequence

8.8 Great

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Castor

Castor is the second-brightest star in Gemini and a famous sextuple star system about 51 light-years away, comprising th...

Bright Gemini Multiple A Type

8.7 Great

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Thuban

Alpha Draconis, a star in Draco that served as Earth's north pole star around 2700 BCE due to the slow 26,000-year wobbl...

Binary Giant Draco A Type

8.3 Great

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Delta Scuti

Delta Scuti is an A-type pulsating variable that is the prototype of the Delta Scuti class of short-period pulsators wid...

Scutum Main Sequence A Type Pulsating

8.1 Great

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Miaplacidus

Miaplacidus is the second-brightest star in Carina, a blue-white giant about 113 light-years away and one of the brighte...

Bright Giant Southern A Type

7.8 Good

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Rasalhague

Alpha Ophiuchi, the brightest star in Ophiuchus, a binary star with a white primary about 47 light-years away; its Arabi...

Bright Binary Giant Ophiuchus

7.8 Good

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Gamma Doradus

Gamma Doradus is the prototype of Gamma Doradus variables, F-type stars that pulsate in high-order gravity modes near th...

Dorado F Type Main Sequence Pulsating

7.7 Good

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Alhena

Gamma Geminorum, a white giant in Gemini about 109 light-years away and one of the brighter stars in this zodiacal const...

Bright Binary Giant Gemini

7.6 Good

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SX Phoenicis

SX Phoenicis is the prototype of SX Phoenicis variables, Population II pulsating stars analogous to Delta Scuti stars an...

Phoenix A Type Pulsating Variable Prototype

7.6 Good

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Aspidiske

Iota Carinae, a yellow-white supergiant in Carina forming part of the False Cross asterism, whose IAU-approved name Aspi...

Bright Giant Southern A Type

7.3 Good

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Vega B

A designation for a proposed faint stellar companion to Vega, a nearby A0 star ~25 light-years away that defines the zer...

Lyra Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

5.5 Mediocre