viewed the Garnet as a double (Halifax)

The Burke-Gaffney Observatory imaged The Garnet Star aka μ (mu) Cephei for me. I have viewed this colourful star many times as example of a deep orange or red star. Recently I learned it is also a multi-star system. This photograph is centred on GSC 03979 00454.

Luminance only, 3 seconds subexposures, 20 stacked shots. FITS Liberator, Paint.NET. North is up; east is left.

The B and C companions to the primary are rather faint.

B is close, almost due west, almost on the diffraction spike.

C is to the north-west, about 3 times the AB distance. It is a bit dimmer than B.

A very interesting field.

It'll be fun (I hope) to process this in colour to see how red it really is...

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Assembled in full colour.

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Found the Garnet on my View Again list in SkyTools. Removed it.

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Wikipedia link: mu Cephei.