Fomalhaut - Alpha Piscis Austrini
RA center: 22h 57m 40s .6
DEC Centre: -29° 37′ 15″
Date: 28. September 2024
Location: Chile / Chilescope
Telescope: ASA 500N, remote
Recording camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: ASA DDM85 Premium
Exposure time: 1h 30 ′
Frames:
G: 6 x 300″
B: 6 x 300″
Ha: 6 x 300″
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Skylum Luminar AI
Fomalhaut is unusual in several ways: On the one hand, it forms a triple system with two dwarf stars that are extremely far apart. On the other hand, two of these three stars have a belt of dust and ice - similar to the Kuiper belt in our solar system.
Fomalhaut is relatively quite young, only about 440 million years old. As a class A star, it is much hotter than our Sun, 15 times as bright and 25 light-years from Earth. The star burns hydrogen at such a high rate that it burns out in just a billion years, which is 10% of our star's lifespan.
