Mebsuta ("stretching") is the designation of the Epsilon Geminorum. Epsilon Geminorum has an apparent brightness of +3,2 mag and is approx.. removes 900 light-years of the earth (Hipparcos data base). The spectral type of Mebsuta is G5. Alternative names: Melboula, Melucta. Mebsuta can as eclipticnear star of the moon and (very rarely!) by planets to be covered. The last coverage of Mebsuta by a planet took place on 8 April 1976 via the planet Mars and the next to last on 10 June 1940 via the planet Mercury.
EpsilonGeminorum is a 3.5 magnitude star, not one of the brightest, even a bit on the dim side for NYC's light-polluted skies (we've gotten a LOT better in the decades since 1976, with special light-safe street lighting, and other methods).
But April seventh turned out luckily to be a lovely mild, cloudless early Spring evening (the critical five minutes were centered on 8 PM EST, by which time it was definitely night, a magical night for some of us).
To me epsilongeminorum appeared to have a very distinct cyan cast, much bluer than in the photos above.
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