Red + green = yellow

Interesting things
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That’s a very fast High Proper Motion Star called LP 736-5.

I think the split colors are meant to show movement.

For some reason, my SImbad link isn’t working :frowning:

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Yep, exactly, with these cameras we typically observe them one filter at a time, sometimes over many years, so the star has moved between when we took the “red” channel and when we took the “green” channel!

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that’s what I thought, :vertical_traffic_light:

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I’ve posted a few like this ~ with the same response

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