What's your favorite star?

[PlutonianEmpire]

Which star in the night sky is your favorite star, and why?

Mine is Delta Trianguli, because according to current knowledge, it is a tight binary star that is not only relatively close to Earth (34 LY), but also whose orbits are of low eccentricity, and is somewhat visible in the night sky here on Earth.

What's yours?

[Hungry4info]

Pollux.

Easy to see, and you can point to it and say "A planet orbits that star."

[Chuft-Captain]

Pollux' twin brother: http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12104&p=111564#p111564

... because he has more buddies.

[MKruer]

Second star to the right.

[InconspicuousBarrel]

Albireo! A binary system that looks very cool!

[MKruer]

Eta Carinae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
Too bad it will not last. It just looks freaking awesome
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... arinae.jpg

[W0RLDBUILDER]

I don't know which star IRL is my favorite, but in Spore, Sol is my favorite, simply because Earth is in orbit around Sol and and it's really hard to find in Spore. IRL, though, Sol is easy to find. Just look for that blindingly bright spot in the sky!

[zhar2]

sirius a and b

[t00fri]

sirius a and b

Did you ever spot Sirius B with a telescope? It's not so easy (in the real world).
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15619&start=3

Fridger

[Reiko]

My favorite one is the one I can see. There is so much air and light pollution it's hard to see any stars at night.

[d.m.falk]

Alpha Centauri star system
Gliese 581
Tau Ceti
Betelgeuse



d.m.f.

[Splinterfrag]

Either ηCarinae or Betelgeuse.

[Sunchaser]

Tegmine...all 5 of them.

Nunki is a close second...I like things from antiquity.