A telephoto lens and some enlargement clearly shows that the “star” (Epsilon Lyrae) above and a little to the right of Vega (the brightest star in the photo) is actually a double star. This is not a line of sight pheonomina, they actually orbit one another. Amazingly, at higher power, each of these stars turns out to be a double. These doubles are also gravitationaly connected. It’s a double double! But it gets even better than that, one of those four stars is again a double!!
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