A portrait of most of the constellation of Lyra the Harp, taking in all its bright stars.
A portrait of most of the constellation of Lyra the Harp, taking in all its bright stars. Vega is at top right, with the famous Double-Double, Epsilon Lyrae, above it at top. The very orange star is Delta2 Lyrae paired with blue Delta1 Lyrae, amid the sparse star cluster Stephenson 1. The double star Zeta1 and Zeta2 Lyrae is below and to the left of Vega. At bottom left are the two stars at the bottom of Lyra, Gamma and Beta Lyrae, aka Sulafat and Sheliak respectively. Between them and just visible at this scale as a disk and not a star is the green planetary nebula Messier 57, the Ring Nebula.
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