I went to a meeting tonight, and then to an astronomy lecture at a local library. The speaker brought a home made telescope and set it up in the parking lot of the library. This is probably the worst place for observing the heavens that I have ever seen! There were giant bright lights on tall poles illuminating the entire lot. There was hardly a star to be seen. Someone asked "Where is Alberio?" Alberio is a gorgeous double star, one orange and one blue. When I took this, different people were pointing to where they thought it was, or shielding their eyes in order to be able to look for the star.
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where is it? and can it be seen without a telescope?
Yes it can, but only a telescope can show you two stars, where the unaided eye sees only one. Alberio is in the constellation Cygnus, which looks like a giant kite in the skies. Go here to Wikipedia, and then click on the map to see it in greater detail. The star Alberio is named. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(constellation)
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