Yes it does. I found a picture of it on the AOP website. This star is a real "smoking gun". http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/rleporis.html Debbie

From: Michael Carnes <MichaelCarnes@earthlink.net> Date: 2005/12/27 Tue AM 10:17:14 MST To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] M34 Image posted

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I also found Hind's Crimson star. This star is a carbon variable star and it is one of the reddest "bright" stars in the sky. Also got a peek at the "Christmas Tree Cluster". It was too hazy to see the "Cone >Nebula".

Yeah, that one's a beauty. It's also known as R Leporis, has a carbon shell and varies over several orders of magnitude. At its brightest it might just get to naked eye visibility in a decent sky. Looks like a ruby, doesn't it?

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