19 Canum Venaticorum [SEP] constellation
19 Canum Venaticorum
19 Canum Venaticorum is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, located approximately 238 light years from Sun based on its parallax. It is dimly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.77. The pair orbit each other with a period of 219.2 years and an eccentricity of 0.686. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −21 km/s.
The magnitude +5.87 primary, component A
Baltiysk (air base)
Baltiysk (also Noytif) was a military air base in Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Vistula Spit, southwest of Baltiysk center within the city proper, on the opposite side of the Strait of Baltiysk close to the westernmost point of Russia.
Originally constructed in the 1930s by Nazi Germany for the "Luftwaffe", it was unused during World War II but was damaged by Allied bombings. In 1945 after the war ended, the air base came into possession