First let me preface this by saying that I'm not a star person...at all. I preferred asteroid pictures as a kid over star charts, etc. Couldn't spot a star through a telescope if my life depended on it. A star has always just been a "reliable way of pointing to the right direction."
However, today I'm turning in my adopted Kornephoros and I'm feeling very nostalgic about it. It was just one of the stars in a constellation, but I really like the star. It had a lot of features that came standard that I wasn't used to (lots of plasma, good ratio of hydrogen to helium, etc...) and it's been extremely bright.
I'm replacing it with a Sheliak which is a very similar star (same diameter) that will have all of its features and several more features it didn't have, some of which I'm looking forward to (greater radial velocity, many more stellar flares) and some that I could have lived without (coronal loops, limb darkening).........but I'm still seriously wondering if I'll be missing my Kornephoros after I get it.
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