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The supergiant Rho Cas F8Ia has a very high luminosity. Astronomers have payed attention to this star in August 1946, when its by its brightness had dropped from 4.2 to 6.2. The systematic spectrographic observations of Rho Cas are beeing carried out at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1965. No large light variations were observed during that time.
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Boyarchuk, M. (1981). On Possible Mass Loss from the Supergiant Rho Cassiopeia. In: Chiosi, C., Stalio, R. (eds) Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8500-1_20
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