Stellar Micro - Arcturus Traditional Cache
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Cul de sac in an industrial area, you can park next to it and have this done in a minute.
This is a 35mm film canister and the cache is named for the star Arcturus.
From Wikipedia: Arcturus (a Boo / a Boötis / Alpha Boötis) (IPA: /?rk'tj??r?s/) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, and the third brightest star in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of -0.05, after Sirius and Canopus, although it is fainter than the combined light of the two main components of Alpha Centauri, which are too close together for the eye to resolve as separate sources of light, making Arcturus appear to be the fourth brightest. It is the second brightest star visible from northern latitudes and the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. The star is in the Local Interstellar Cloud.
Arcturus is a type K1.5 IIIpe red giant star — the letters "pe" stand for "peculiar emission," which indicates that the spectrum of light given off by the star is unusual and full of emission lines. This is not too uncommon in red giants, but Arcturus has a particularly strong case of the phenomenon. It is at least 110 times more luminous than the Sun, but this underestimates its strength as much of the "light" it gives off is in the infrared; total power output is about 180 times that of the Sun. The lower output in visible light is due to a lower efficacy as the star has a lower surface temperature than the Sun.
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onfr bs byrnaqre ohfu haqre n ebpx
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