[AZ-Observing] Re: A Red Betelgeuse this Morning

Arcturus has at times looked really yellow to me.
We got a look at a famous carbon star - Hind's Crimson Star - R Leporis 
- a couple of weekends ago, when we were down near Tombstone near the 
western ramparts of the Dragoon Mountains, watching for the asteroid 
occultation by (917) Palisana (it was a "miss", as the track evidently 
went south, into Mexico).  R Lep looked very fiery red-orange in Gerry 
Rattley's 14 inch Schwaar Newtonian.  I have been doing a little 
informal research on R Lep, and find some discrepancies in various 
descriptions of it, as to whether or not it supposedly gets REDDER as it 
gets BRIGHTER, or as it gets fainter.  It has just passed its minimum 
(during the period while it was too close to the Sun to observe this 
year), so it will be growing brighter over the next many months, and 
will be interesting to watch.  (Period is about 422 days.)  Over the 
years, off on on, I had looked at it sporadically, and it always 
appeared just pumpkin-yellow to me.  But a few years ago, somebody 
showed it to me again, and it was truly "blood red".  So I would like to 
catch it again at that phase.
Gene Lucas
(17250)

Brian Skiff wrote:

>>> ...I looked in the same direction
>>> (0530) and saw Achernar really well, despite the city lights.
>>>      
>>>
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>     Presumably Canopus, que no?
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>\Brian
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