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Community photo entitled Sirius with the Elusive Sirius B by Catherine Hyde on 02/09/2025 at Cambria, CA USA

Sirius with the Elusive Sirius B

On 02/09/2025 08:00 pm by Catherine Hyde | Website | Cambria, CA USA

I learned in my EarthSky newsletter about Sirius B being at 11 arc seconds of separation from Sirius, giving us the best chance to observe or photograph it in 50 years. I took about 250 1/2-second photos to try to overcome bad seeing, a killer with an image like this. Then I manually weeded out 25 I thought were good enough to stack.

Stellarvue 152mm refractor, Nikon D810A camera.

I used Blur Xterminator in PixInsight to help sharpen and correct the stars, but not much else.