Albireo is a beautiful optical double star in the constellation of Cygnus. It is represented as the 'head of the swan', and when you view it in a telescope, two stars can be seen...one is blue and the other is orangishgold. It has been debated for some time about whether this is a binary system or an optical binary. Research points to this being an optical double between the orange and blue stars.

On a personal note, Albireo is special to me because I named my cat after this star. He has one blue eye and one golden eye, which is a genetic condition known as heterochromia. Meet him in this video!

0:00 Welcome to Learn the Sky
0:36 Introduction
1:32 Albireo and Deneb
2:30 Albireo the Gold and Blue star system (optical double)
3:26 Meet my kitty Albireo!
4:14 Characteristics of Albireo a TRIPLE star system
5:42 Distance of Albireo
6:12 Practice finding Albireo
8:25 Pure happiness when I see this!
8:38 Photo Attributes

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